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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
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations