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Subversive man subverts
Russell Brand’s bad behaviour was rewarded by a progressive media in love with upending social norms
Coles to Newcastle
Showbiz vicars, lefty luvvies and a brush with death
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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
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
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
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Like a homecoming
A haunted house