Sparks brothers
Sparks of Life
The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning
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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 last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world