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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality