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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden