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Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia