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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy