Gary Cooper
High Noon is a disappointing evening
Westerns, like science fiction and pornography, are a genre best left to film
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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
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
