Tax
Stamp duty is a tax that deserves the axe
Kemi Badenoch is right to pledge to abolish it
Let our pubs live
The government should recognise how important pubs are to society
Britain needs lower taxes now
We must escape our doom loop of taxing and spending
Just tax poor people
It is just that recipients of state benefits should pay more for them
The underground tobacco trade is thriving in Britain
Government measures have pushed smokers towards cheaper alternatives
The private school exodus dwarfs Treasury predictions
Children and schools are suffering as a result of the imposition of VAT on private school fees
The great wage squeeze
Why is everyone in Britain paid the same amount?
Raiding the bookmakers
A money-hungry government is coming for online gambling
Levy the remittances!
The British economy is bleeding as hundreds of millions of pounds are sent overseas
The bitter truth about the sugar tax
There is nothing to savour in its results
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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
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own