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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal