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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
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles