Johnny Marr
How The Smiths were Marred
Right-on credentials are no excuse for elevating uninspiring music
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era