First Flame
Puzzles, Picassos and prophecies
Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
