Royal Albert Hall
Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
Last Night of the Proms – a storm in a teacup?
BBC Proms row has developed into an unexpectedly successful publicity stunt
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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
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life