Owen Patterson
That was then, this is now
It’s a kindness of friends not to look at what we’re doing
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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
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?