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2016

Letter from Washington: 2016 and all that

Letter from Washington: 2016 and all that

Artillery Row
Oliver Wiseman

Most Read

Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food

Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

Columns
Victoria Smith

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK

If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes

On Theatre
Alexander Larman
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The strange birth of woo-woo

The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie

Features
Zoe Strimpel

A scarcity machine

Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked

Artillery Row
John Wills

Stop selling sexism

Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do

Columns
Victoria Smith

All the single ladies

Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families

Artillery Row
Dan Cheslett

No, the King has not converted

A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false

Columns
Marcus Walker

Haskel’s challenge

Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth

Artillery Row
William Nixon

The man who knew too little

Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless

Columns
Robert Hutton

David Lean

The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors

Profile
Alexander Larman

Rewatching the English

English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

Farage fumbles

“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”

Columns
Robert Hutton
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