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Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
The end of the news
The appetite for all journalism wanes
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium