Polly Toynbee
Neither good nor serious
Against the Lost Cause Myth of Starmerism
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
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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
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan