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A shot across the bows
The government nearly lost a Commons division this week – what were they thinking of?
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
