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The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
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
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
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)
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked