Laughter
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
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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
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton