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Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
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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
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
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system