What Mel Stride should really be apologising for
The Conservative Party failed when it rejected change
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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
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
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart