Nobu
Ubiquitous, but bloody good
Time and global success hasn’t dimmed the appeal of dinner at Nobu
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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
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original