Bilbao Effect
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
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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
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How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?