Alistair Haimes
The elephant in the chamber
PMQs is failing to explore whether the government’s Covid strategy makes sense
September 2020: Letters to the Editor
The divisions between the ruling managerial class and the rest are a recipe for extremism
The Whitehall rot sets in
This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered
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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
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart