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Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
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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
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup