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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning