Pen Farthing
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In a serious country serious people would resign over Pen’s pets
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
