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Can Peppa Pig save Boris from the CBI?
Why MPs can no longer vote by click
Voting through the lobbies is an inconvenience worth preserving
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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
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show