Brussels
The rise of Mrs Europe
A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?
Why observe the laws the EU won’t?
Brussels has a very distinctive attitude towards its sacred legal order
Low road to deals
Thomas Woodham-Smith heads for Brussels bargains
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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
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 case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal