Blue Velvet
Girls don’t just wanna have fun
“Blue Velvet” is a sinister, savage take on male violence and a feminine urge for vengeance
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer