Italian Politics
The maverick of Venice
Here we have a cultural ambassador for the multipolar age
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
King of the Italians
Why Berlusconi was loved in spite of everything
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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
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent