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Paranoia about rhetoric does more harm than good
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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
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it