David Miles
How comfortable is wafer thin?
… and how cunning is the Treasury?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
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Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer