Carrie Cracknell
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career