The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
Under the microscope
What is the value of research if the results are so fragile?
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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
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness