Urban decline
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
The word from Britain’s streets
Patrick Galbraith fears for the health of an old friend
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
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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
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers