Taylor Swift
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Feelbad anthem
Liz Truss does indeed “move on out”
Swift reprise
Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity