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Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
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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
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade