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Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Shielding the North Sea
Keir Starmer should be doing more to help Britain profit from its existing resources
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts