Toon Tellegen
Kick off the new year with a comic novel
There’s a pleasure in every paragraph and a tartness to set off the sweetness
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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
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations