Super Thursday
Santa’s unspeakable sack
Why are publishers so sniffy about stocking fillers?
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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
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”