The Rest is Politics
Why on Earth do people listen to “The Rest Is Politics”?
Left-leaning bourgeois Brits need their centrist comfort blanket
In defence of Political Currency
Not all podcasts by middle-aged politicians are the same
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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
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech