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Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Crake and ales
Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
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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
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
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet