John Singer Sargent
The painter with the X factor
Be careful what you wish for
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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
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
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
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured