80s
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
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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
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?