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Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
Boom and bust redux
The Bank of England’s latest blunder will lead the country into a damaging recession
The devil in the dating apps
Modern technology does not encourage long-term relationships but a spiral of swiping
The decline of beauty
Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?
The issue with the Big Issue
The transformation of Big Issue vendors and the war against noticing
Careless glister
Insouciant glamour for the party season
Return of the biopic
History is fashionable again at the cinema
Modernism for the many
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita &c (Ondine)
Thoughtful delicacy and austere introspection
An exhibition of the art of Gwen John secures her legacy
A radical alternative to central banks
Javier Milei would be right to abolish the Argentine central bank
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership