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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
