Will Loxley
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
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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 fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet