Music Review
The brilliance of Richard Thompson
What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him
On “Festen” and forgetting
The latest production of the Royal Opera was gripping but occasionally unconvincing
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense