Tony Blackburn
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Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
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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
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?