Robert Peston
Easy mode
For some politicians, the game is always too hard
Constitutionally deformed
Robert Peston and Kishan Koria would make our democracy far more dysfunctional
Why standards matter
Take off your trainers, Mr Peston
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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
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form