Front Row
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
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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
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
