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Understanding the Coronation
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone