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Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
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
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport