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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
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology