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Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
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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
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on