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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone