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The Stratford MSG Sphere would have been a dystopian nightmare
Light pollution is not a fringe issue and we need to reconnect to the night sky
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
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
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion