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Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
The battle for PPE – never was so much owed by so many to so few
Can Lord Deighton do for PPE what Lord Beaverbrook did for Spitfires?
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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
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto