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The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
When the left loves billionaires
Why does only right-wing funding count as “dark money”?
Why are political donations suspect?
Donors pay twice: with their money and by having their reputations tarnished
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unconquered by a
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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
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair