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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
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue