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Ella Whelan

November 2020: Letters to the Editor

November 2020: Letters to the Editor

Too kind to Trotsky

Letters
The Critic

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food

Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

Artillery Row
Steve Garyson

The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon

The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris

Artillery Row
John MacLeod
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Unholy war

The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself

The World at Large
Sergey Maidukov

Escape to the country

Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day

Table Talk
Claudia Savage-Gore

How to get Britain building

A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to

Artillery Row
Adam James Pollock

An artful chip

Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper

This Sporting Life
Boris Starling

Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom

What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

No Keirs, only dreams now

With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him

Columns
Robert Hutton

The delusions of the DCMS

The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control

Columns
Chris Bayliss

The myth of banned books

If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

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

Features
Sienna Rodgers

A failed war on fags

The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon
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