Annie Nightingale
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Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
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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
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement