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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
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes