Tom Smail
Dei ex machinae
15 August is the worst day of the year for a swim at the Venice Lido
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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
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration