Laurie Wastell
Laurie Wastell is an associate editor at the Daily Sceptic and host of the Sceptic podcast. He tweets at @l_wastell
The wellspring of woke
The right should stop “owning the libs” and focus on state power
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
