Benjamin Waugh
Crossed out
Why does Christianity get erased from the history of British social reform?
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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
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon