Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
From major to minor
Who’s minor and who’s major reveal the power of collective prejudice
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport