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Et tu Baker?
Steve Baker’s call for Dominic Cummings to be sacked is a dramatic intervention
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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
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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 memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact