The rise of the panic masters
Why today’s graduates want to stay at university forever
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna