Adam Dant
Unleash your inner Einstein
Science needn’t be difficult and dull, but we must inspire people with its wonders
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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
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.