Royal Academy of Arts
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
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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
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
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
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless