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No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom