Peter Rickets
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
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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 book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them