Chris Walton
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
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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
taste of Crusader food
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
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion