Schlock of the new
Those in charge are in thrall to vain provocateur directors
Naughty but nice
Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education