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The many women of George Orwell
Orwell’s biographer reveals all in this week’s Podcast
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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
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong