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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead