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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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK