Classical History
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal