Malcolm Bradbury
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
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
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country