Spain ’82 World Cup
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways