Rishi Sunak
I come not to bury Boris
My name is Prudence and I’m here to have a good time
Where are we going with all this?
The Treasury now has to rely on epidemiological guesswork not economic forecasting
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
An economic warning to the curious
There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes
The Captain doesn’t want to play
What happened to Boris as a child that he hates cricket so?
Going Dutch with Rishi Sunak
Can the Chancellor really be all give and no take?
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
Politics in a time of Coronavirus
How partisan should party politics now be?
John Maynard Sunak – the primer of the pump
Rishi Sunak’s first budget was Keynesian not Corbynite
Everybody needs good neighbours
Has any Chancellor of the Exchequer’s resignation been accorded greater indifference?
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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender