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Lady Gaga’s new album is a blast
Until now, she’s never been as much fun as she was in the noughties
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
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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
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space