Constantinople
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
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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
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre