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Was the Maginot line really such a failure?
A new book rehabilitates a linear symbol of French defeat
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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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on