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Dismantle the HR state
Opaque standards committees are putting British public life in a stranglehold
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
