My Fair Lady
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
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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
taste of Crusader food
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
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough