Steve Rayson
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
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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)
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.