Richard Powers
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
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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
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
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 meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism