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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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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
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion