Glenda Jackson
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
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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
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans