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Remedial class
Keir Starmer thinks he’s dealing with an idiot at PMQs – as today showed, it’s a mistake to always underestimate your opponent
Will Keir Starmer get a chance at a first impression?
Three opposition leaders have made it into government in the last 40 years. Keir Starmer faces an uphill battle to become the fourth
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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
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
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
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.
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains