Wine
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
Keeping it in the family
Christopher Pincher on Michael Fabricant and those who require vineyards to be family-owned
Christmas drinks
Fergus Butler-Gallie blesses that which unites church and pub
Andean myth buster
Don’t listen to the critics. When it comes to wine the new world produces some real works of art
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
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