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Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
In praise of perseverance
Satisfaction comes through effort and resolve
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions