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A whole pot of Rosie

A whole pot of Rosie

Drinks for a downpour

On Drink
Christopher Pincher

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
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Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

Artillery Row
Steve Garyson

What the reparations debate says about Britain

Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future

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Chris Bayliss
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Scotland’s biggest legal scandal

Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible

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Stuart Waiton

No, rent controls don’t work

Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses

Artillery Row
Maxwell Marlow

I don’t trust the British state

British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

Restore the King James Bible

Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken

Sounding Board
Marcus Walker

The Starmer strikes back

In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech

Columns
Robert Hutton

Squeezing out your generation

New laws are harming, not helping, younger people

Artillery Row
Fred de Fossard

The last true Kapellmeister

Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all

The Critics
Norman Lebrecht

Sex wars, what are they good for?

On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat

Artillery Row
Felice Basbøll

Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control

Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic

Artillery Row
Owen Polley

The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers

China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning

On Europe
Tom Jones
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