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Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill