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Matt Gaetz

Letter from Washington: This is Matt. Don’t be like Matt

Letter from Washington: This is Matt. Don’t be like Matt

Are Republicans serious?

Artillery Row
Oliver Wiseman

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Tame Impala fails to impress

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Lisa Hilton

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

Artillery Row
Steve Garyson

Towards an allied civil society network in Europe

The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions

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Kristen Ziccarelli
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Restore the King James Bible

Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken

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Marcus Walker

AI and the Jefferson Option

Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse

Artillery Row
Clement Knox

Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score

If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead

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Michael Henderson

The untold story of Brexit

Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics

Artillery Row
David Shipley

Hard rain in Spain

Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics

On Europe
Jack Davey

The problem with price freezes

Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think

Columns
Henry Hill

The Starmer strikes back

In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech

Columns
Robert Hutton

Will London fall?

If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?

Artillery Row
Dominic Adler

Bye bye, Beeb?

A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

When violence is its own reward

How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?

Columns
Ben Sixsmith
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