Anne Enright
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
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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
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
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
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down