Jeane Freeman
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
Is England denying Scotland vital PPE?
The supposed scandal in Scotland has got the facts back to front
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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
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe