Nigel Boardman
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Nigel Boardman’s inquiry into the Greensill Affair squanders the opportunity for real reform
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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
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation