James Taylor
Reform’s uncut fringe
The party’s lunatic element is still in good health
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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 rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality