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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
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms