Time to rethink Martin Amis
He was an entertainer. But only an entertainer
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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
unconquered by a
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define