John McTernan
What Labour owes to Scotland
Can Keir Starmer succeed without the land of Keir Hardie?
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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
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel