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Tame Impala fails to impress
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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
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
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life