TV Debate
Bad television is good for democracy
This election has broken the aura and expectation accorded to TV debates
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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 summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down