Jubilee Line
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change