David Sassoli
Breaking the UK-EU deadlock
The big concession to get talks moving is about to be made over the heads of Barnier and Frost
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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
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt