Mantel
Masterful tombstone for a tudor bruiser
Hannah Betts reviews The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
