Jewishness
The end of the schtick
The Last Jewish Joke by Michel Wieviorka
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
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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
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics