Prime Target
The summer’s best viewing
Four new series to look out for and six old favourites that are still available
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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
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley