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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
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned