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FDR is no hero – he shouldn’t be Boris’s role model
Is Boris’s ‘Rooseveltian’ revival really what the country needs?
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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
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
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
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise