Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
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
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border