Tambora
October 2020: Letters to the Editor
Damned by his own words
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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
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill