Brandon Taylor
Kick off the new year with a comic novel
There’s a pleasure in every paragraph and a tartness to set off the sweetness
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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
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles