Robert Maxwell
Was he pushed?
Robert Maxwell’s last two days are covered in great detail in this new book
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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
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for