Cecily Gayford
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?