Otto Penzler
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
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
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer