Romain Gary
Might this win the Booker?
Page-turning, socially intriguing and melodramatic to the point of campness
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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
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham