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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
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting