Identity Cards
Reconsidering the case for ID cards
If tracking Covid-19 requires “immunity passports” then why not as part of an ID card?
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
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
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
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How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature