Roy Jenkins
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
The day integration died
On the deliberate policy to discourage immigrants to assimilate
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations