Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
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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
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement