Stephen Merchant
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
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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
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas