Disability
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Sadiq Khan is blind to unromantic disadvantages
London travel schemes are excluding the disabled and pro-diversity officials do not seem to care
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
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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
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies