Nick Candy
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?