Supranationalism
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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 enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies