fairy tales
A.S. Byatt and the follies of magical progressivism
The late novelist understood the dangers of ego-centred delusions
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves