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My sordid tryst with Boris
What promises is the Prime Minister actually going to deliver on?
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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
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature