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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
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
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
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?
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
