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Dissing Darth Vader
Longtime Scout leader Brian Walker paid the price for his Christian views
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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
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses