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Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
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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
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
