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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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,
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself