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We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
