Gambling Regulation
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer