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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
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay