Harriett Gilbert
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
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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
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
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
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off