Parkrun
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
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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
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
