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GOP

Letter from Washington: This is Matt. Don’t be like Matt

Letter from Washington: This is Matt. Don’t be like Matt

Are Republicans serious?

Artillery Row
Oliver Wiseman

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food

Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

Artillery Row
Steve Garyson

Literary freedom is in the gutter

The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre

Artillery Row
Jenny Lindsay
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Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians

We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad

Artillery Row
Robert Clarke

Regulations without services

How the state is prohibiting without providing

Columns
Chris Bayliss

The untold story of Brexit

Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics

Artillery Row
David Shipley

By the by-elections

Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections

Artillery Row
John MacLeod

What has Labour learned?

Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work

Columns
Henry Hill

Sometimes look on the bright side of life

We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators

Artillery Row
Adam McDermont

Keir’s logorrhoea

The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?

Columns
Robert Hutton

The government must defuse a legal time bomb

Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions

Artillery Row
Yuan Yi Zhu

The knife and the bone

After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders

Columns
Tom Jones

Europe’s French nuclear shield?

With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?

Features
Daniel R. DePetris
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