mushrooms
A countryside for all
Patrick Galbraith wants shooters and mushroom heads to get along
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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
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself