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The future is Chinese
The Western art world lays the conceptual ground for a civilisational transition, then lacks the critical nerve to digest it
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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
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity