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Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
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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)
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough