Tim Wigmore
Tim Wigmore is a freelance political journalist and blogs for The Spectator. He also writes regularly on cricket for ESPNcricinfo, and Ghana for the Economist Intelligent Unit.
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Signs of a rethink on America's War on Drugs
15 March 2013 01:55 PM
Maryland looks likely to follow Washington and decriminalise marijuana
The ICC will put Kenyatta on trial - but the court also helped this man into power
13 March 2013 03:55 PM
The new President positioned his campaign against Western neo-colonialism
Eastleigh by-election: Lib Dems to paint Tories as ‘Tea Party’ option in snapshot of 2015 strategy
15 February 2013 03:42 PM
Candidate Mike Thornton wants to prevent left-leaning voters deserting for Labour
An inauguration review: Look closer and you'll see Obama's record isn't short on the kind of change he promised back in 2008
17 January 2013 05:54 PM
The President has prevented the economic crisis leading to a rise in social deprivation
Whatever happened to the global race in education?
09 January 2013 05:00 PM
Tomorrow's graduates will compete against an ever growing number of exceptionally qualified overseas students. Better policy can help prepare them for that
Ignore the 50p tax rate grandstanding, its real effects are impossible to tell
07 January 2013 01:01 PM
The numbers we have simply don't stand up to scrutiny
Ukip are by no means libertarian
18 December 2012 05:23 PM
"Right-wing" is the only appropriate description for Nigel Farage's party
Why David Cameron doesn't want live television debates in 2015
11 December 2012 05:09 PM
They may have stopped the Tories gaining a majority in 2010; but the British public would be best served by their return in the next electoral cycle
Ghana votes to a background of election goodwill
07 December 2012 04:11 PM
This country's leadership has been exemplary when it comes to democractic handovers
A day without Twitter and I'm thinking for myself
26 November 2012 04:47 PM
Twitter encourages conformity; sometimes the radio is best
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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The unmade speech: An alternative draft of history
Funny business: Meet the women running comedy
Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'
Lure of the jingle
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