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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
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
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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)
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran