Alasdair Gray
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
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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
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
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
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
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