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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
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead