William Boyd
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects