Israeli Culture
A much-misunderstood composer
The Cosmos of Paul Ben-Haim (CPO)
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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
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified