Lord Birt
The big lie: The inside story of the BBC’s Bashir cover-up
How the Corporation betrayed its founding principles to protect senior executives
“I trusted a journalist …”
MPs shocked to discover a liar could have risen so far
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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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs