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A cricket club founded by an expatriate lacemaker evolved into one of the wealthiest football sides in the world
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer