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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
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal