Cultural Trends
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Corecore and cultural fragmentation
Young people are picking through the rubble of old aesthetics
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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
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet