"A Crosby-ified Toryism can eke out victories against average opponents, but it is no guide to winning well or winning at a time when the capitalist system is being questioned; when Thatcherite and Reaganite orthodoxies are being questioned or when, in such places as Scotland (and now London), the Conservative brand is weak and needs rebuilding."
Tim Montgomerie on the defeat of Zac Goldsmith.
Lenore Skenazy condemns the use of parents' fears for their children as a marketing tool.
Tony Broadbent rediscovers a murder that scandalised postwar London: the shooting of Alec de Antiquis in 1947.
"As you visit the Polling Station today you may be struck by the rather anachronistic posters which identify those buildings designated as such. Some local authorities have held huge stocks of these paper banners for much of the 20th century, and in some parts of the country those on display today may have been printed many years before you were born."
Bob Richardson examines election day typography.
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Katy Waldman on why we omit initial pronouns.
Kelefa Sanneh explores the benign ruthlessness of Paul Simon.
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