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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
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
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
