Simon Winder
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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
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons