Trade
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
The balance of power
Economics will be key in the looming new Cold War between the US and China
Protocol questions
Is Ulster how May’s sometime ministers will still get BRINO for Great Britain too?
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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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan