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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
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions