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Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions