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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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
