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Where are we going with all this?
The Treasury now has to rely on epidemiological guesswork not economic forecasting
Ofcom is a menace to our freedom of speech
It is high time we liberated our airwaves
Will there ever be a good Covid protest song?
A decent lockdown protest song is about as likely as a vaccine before Christmas
Wherefore art thou, America?
The United States’s travel ban makes us all poorer
The Keynesian comeback
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed policymakers to revive discredited economic theories
The rise of Mrs Europe
A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?
Covid and stogies on the campaign trail
A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race
The elephant in the chamber
PMQs is failing to explore whether the government’s Covid strategy makes sense
Wokeminster
Tories reject unconscious bias training, BBC show critical race lecture, and Colston falls (again)
Keir Starmer – a Serious Man
Starmer lays out a future – back to “the third way”
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions