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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
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you