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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
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them