Mark Gatiss
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
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