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Beyond the one-man band
With defections looming and insiders hedging their bets, Reform faces an awkward question: who actually fills its benches?
Choose your Chancellor
Your cut-out-and-keep guide to the candidates for Cambridge’s top job
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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
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state