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In an enchanted glen
The pinnacle of Scottish cuisine and French design are served at Glenturret
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms