The Dissenter
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The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
