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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand