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Feasting on Christmas Eve
Luxury tastes for the festive season
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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
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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
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal