Billy Crudup
High Noon is a disappointing evening
Westerns, like science fiction and pornography, are a genre best left to film
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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
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union