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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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 great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
