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Auden, Peter Ackroyd
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
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
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis