Sebastian Faulks
Why update PG Wodehouse?
Cynically timed for Christmas, celebrity authors have reimagined the classic characters
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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)
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing