Westminster
IPSA That Man Again
In the future, everyone will be a WAG admin for 15 groups
A crisp House white
Christopher Pincher on the wine of Westminster
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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
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing