New Coke
The Conservative New Coke problem
It’s hard to shake things up with marketing when the recipe is public and unchanged
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato