tourists
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
A triumph of light and space
The success of the re-opened National Portrait Gallery.
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes