Jonathan Coe
Timelessness trumps timely
What we have is pure storytelling delight, a page-turner that works forwards and backwards as the reader fills in the gaps
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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 rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived