Roderick Beaton
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding