Paul Waugh
Has Kemi never asked a planted question?
Mrs. Badenoch’s attack on planted questions
Death ad nauseam
Call Kim if you want to die. You’ll get a free Parker pen just for enquiring
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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
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad