Ireland’s growing democratic deficit
Restrictionists and social conservatives are not being represented
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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 hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal