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Significant others
Selina Todd reviews Female Husbands, by Jen Manion
The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
All aboard the trans-Lib Dem express
The Lib Dems’ approach to transgender rights showcases the contradictions of identity politics
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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
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
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem