Robert McCrum
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy