Private Eye
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
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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
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier