Marilyn Monroe
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The art of the hype
Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be