Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”