Local Lockdown
No No Nadhim
With a Johnson lockdown easing, terms & conditions apply
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
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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
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy