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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
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
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes