Holy War
Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs