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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
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How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam