Rupert Smith
Rupert Smith is a well known writer who lives on the US east coast but regularly visits the UK. His name has been changed to protect the guilty.
You’re getting the lockdown you deserve
The only remaining options for the UK are lockdowns or doing nothing at all
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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
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
