Robin Holloway
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty