Tax
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Stop bullying British expats
Opportunistic attacks on expatriates in Dubai are ignorant and obnoxious
The asylum crisis is undermining local services
Local councils are struggling to bear the strain of a broken asylum system
Let’s start a new chapter for independent bookshops
We must do more to protect businesses that are not just essential for readers but for local communities
Rachel Reeves doesn’t understand basic economics
The Budget is based on ignorance as well as irresponsibility
The Budget’s attack on racing
Gambling, which funds racing, is likely to lose around £1.6 billion a year from 2027
The Budget was nakedly ideological
Does this dying government want to take the country with it?
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Self-inflicted misery
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