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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
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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
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa