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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
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic