Poverty
Who will offer a vision for national renewal?
Britain needs major reform, not managerial tinkering
Coffey and cigarettes
Smokers have suffered enough
People of class?
Enough with the inequalities Olympics
The abandoned middle
The chancellor’s budget fails to take the side of ordinary people
Who doesn’t want to be a millionaire?
Dominic Hilton contemplates the origins of his obsession with money
An away win
Can the Conservatives win on “Labour issues” like poverty?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company