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Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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 pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history