Mark Harper
The Ensueing
Sue Gray’s report certainly can’t make anything worse
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
Have Conservative MPs been taken to the limit of their endurance?
The Covid Recovery Group continues to gather momentum – and the prime minister knows it
The strategy behind the Covid Recovery Group
MPs fighting the lockdown are sharpening their swords for an almighty battle with No.10
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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
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality