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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
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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
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy