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What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect