Britain needs a new architecture of government
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire