Westminster is running out of time
Exhausted voters aren’t angry so much as resigned to a country that no longer works
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures