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Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize
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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
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long