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Le Point

Killed, not “neutralised”

Killed, not “neutralised”

“neutralise”

Columns
Theodore Dalrymple

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Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food

Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

A shameful Bill

Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration

Columns
Chris Bayliss

Going Green

A day out with Zack Polanski and friends

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

Columns
Victoria Smith

Pleasure and persuasion

Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)

Columns
Norman Lebrecht

The old age elephant in the room

Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?

Columns
Henry Hill
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It’s high time we banned dogs

The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts

Columns
Titania McGrath

Rewatching a TV show from a lost world

In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life

Country Notes
Patrick Galbraith

An anti-gambling bonanza

Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Our new five-party system

First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence

Features
Scarlett Maguire

When compassion kills

Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

The tears of Keir’s

It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership

Artillery Row
Robert Hutton

Rewatching the English

English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

How the war wasn’t won

The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined

Artillery Row
Susan Pickard

Fast out of the blocs

how to acquire an
art collection quickly

Table Talk
Rufus Bird

The RAM should face the music

Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools

Artillery Row
Norman Lebrecht
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