Harold Schonberg
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
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
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon