Pessimism
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life