Rachel Reeves
Going downhill
A bad week is only getting worse for Rachel Reeves
Playtime’s over
It was an austere Spring Statement for an austere government
Not faring very well
Liz Kendall found few sympathetic ears on welfare reform
Three sensible policies for a better Britain
There is still some low-hanging fruit
Time to bite the crypto-bullet?
Compared to Rachel Reeves’ dubious record, Bitcoin looks like a storm-proof harbour
Just shout if you want growth
Over the sound of soulless machines, Reeves had to bellow her entire speech
This is how she scrolls
The Leader of the Opposition does PMQs by Twitter
Droning on
Bonus points if you can identify the shadow chancellor
Labour’s annus horribilis
Britain is becoming diplomatically isolated, economically stagnant, and socially divided
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
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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
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem