Marie Le Pen
Will Reform conform?
Reform will become the Tories before replacing them
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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
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?