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Girls don’t just wanna have fun
“Blue Velvet” is a sinister, savage take on male violence and a feminine urge for vengeance
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
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
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
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
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders