Artillery Row
Post-hate policing
Deprived of non-crime incidents, how will the hate crime industry recover?
Hans Werner Henze: Night pieces and arias (Naxos)
Why are so many in the dark about Germany’s leading musical light?
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Sink Michael Gove’s Irish Sea border
The NIP is destroying the Belfast Agreement before it’s even fully implemented
Johnson’s better angel takes flight
Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil
When is a bot not a bot?
Answer: when it’s a feminist
The wealth of having enough
In an age of consumption, contentment is a crime
Much ado about mothers
Mumsnet has been airing the trans lobby’s dirty laundry
Blackwell’s: an undesirable new chapter?
The sale of the bookshop is not a good omen for the book industry
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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 fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street