Daniel Finkelstein
What did the Tory wets expect?
The Sensibles should reassess how sensible they have actually been
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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
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures