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Reading for the bar
Courtroom memoirs reveal fascinating details of high-profile cases, waspish views of politicians, as well as a QC who solved a notorious murder
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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
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
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
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive