commentators
The end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Boxing clever
Racing has far better TV pundits than football
Gods of the gantry
Motson’s death has reminded us of the enduring power of good commentary
A columnist’s farewell
One column ends and another begins
Politics is not downstream from culture
Against Top Gear conservatism
The bizarre fetish for “grown-up” politics
Is it enough to not be a child?
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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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester