Steven Spurrier
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)