Tracey Emin
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms