Quality
Cut and thrust
Hannah Betts admires a pair of quality-obsessed British labels
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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
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
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