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Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
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
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement