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Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
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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
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
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
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre