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Remembering my old pal, “Peebs”
Andy Peebles had a broader hinterland than one might expect from a DJ
This show has said it all before
Not all bad, but the tone is too breezy
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
An American’s excellent essays
A set of fine programmes on the American bohemians who brought to life a great city on the cusp of significant change
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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
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology