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The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
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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
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history