In search of authenticity
Louis Amis goes to Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucus
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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
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.