Fiscal conservative
Have cake, hate cake
The Sun-Chancellor is having his cake, and hating himself for eating it
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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
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership