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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
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
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
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court