Stefan Collini
The rise and fall of English Lit.
Oxford showed little enthusiasm for its national language and the literature that followed
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
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
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one