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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 EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers