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When I talked over Franz Ferdinand
The only band I’ve seen and wish I’d been paying attention to
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets