Exile
Georgia on my mind
There is an exodus of Muscovites with money to Tbilisi and Turkey
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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
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
