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A circuit break to the consensus
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall