Gary Lineker
In defence of Gary Lineker
There is a difference between bad posts and crimes
On mentioning the war
What’s behind our obsession with World War 2?
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising
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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 dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?