Brian Walden
Nostalgia Inc.
We’re raking over the embers of twentieth century popular culture instead of making something original
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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
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich