Mike Ashley
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
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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
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art