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Why Thames Water is the pariah of post-privatisation capitalism

6 April 2024 9:00 am

‘It would have been ideal not to have so  much poo in the water,’ said Oxford captain Leonard Jenkins after…

Could Sadiq Khan lose London?

6 April 2024 9:00 am

With Labour 20 points ahead in the national polls, a lot of Tories have already written off next month’s mayoral…

The London Library should leave us in peace

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Reading only slightly between the lines of US foreign policy on Israel/Gaza, I detect that its most urgent aim is…

Labour’s Gaza problem

6 April 2024 9:00 am

The district of Pendle in Lancashire has a long history of dissenters, nonconformists, witches and murderers. Perhaps because it is…

The game’s up for ‘anti-racist’ racism

6 April 2024 9:00 am

There are only a few rules to column-writing. One of the strictest is never to waste time bouncing off the…

British families deserve a tax break

30 March 2024 9:00 am

I am delighted to report that some £800,000 of taxpayers’ money is to be spent ‘remediating’ the works of Robert…

Beware pathological niceness

16 March 2024 9:00 am

When so many polls suggest that restricting mass immigration would be to politicians’ electoral advantage, voters in the West are…