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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
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.
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand