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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
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism