John Simon
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
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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
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
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be