Mark Humphrys
Mugged by misrepresentation
Mark Humphrys faces the loss of his university post, if the online mob succeeds
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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
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
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