Artillery Row
Conservatives need to dig deep if they want to win
The Tories should look to their former agriculture base
Jumping the gun
The real problem is the licensing system, not shotguns
Fine decor, shame about the music
The Great Gatsby looks spectacular, but the storytelling and songs let it down
Castanets in her socks
Martha Argerich Edition (Warner Classics, 46 CDs)
Murders for May
A look at some murderously good talent and some old re-releases
Why the Odyssey matters
Its themes will always be relevant to the human experience
Mad, genius?
A new book attempts to untangle a right-wing mystery
Indhu Rubasingham’s first season: time to be excited?
She promises a switch from the modernity-at-all-costs ethos of the Norris regime
How Labour lost the North East
The deep generational loyalty to Labour has frayed to threads
Our Great Leader Nigel
Never be the first to stop clapping
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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 warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?