The pontiff who looked the other way
David Kertzer unearths dramatic evidence from recently-released Vatican files
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
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The real measure of a degree
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
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
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves