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• The futurologists don't want to hear it, but live performance is booming

  17 Apr 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: The Bolívar orchestra is thrilling proof of the folly of writing off an activity because a new medium renders it 'obselete'

• Why Gordon's G20 failure is good news for the people

  8 Apr 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: One silver lining to today's cloud is that the dreaded fiscal stimulus has been placed firmly back in the statist box

• Ancient church art

  5 Apr 2009:

  Medieval churches contain many mysterious and bizarre symbols, says Simon Jenkins

• All spin and flam: these are trying times for those who treasure words

  3 Apr 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: Our leaders have lost the rhetorical arts at the very moment when I most need to hear a speech of convincing reassurance

• Here's proof. The innocent do have something to fear

  1 Apr 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: The crashing of Jacqui Smith's privacy shows that data 'security' is garbage. Yet gullible MPs still vote as if it existed

• This hoarding of treasures is a scandal. They belong to the world

  27 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: Scotland may want its chessmen back, but art hoarding is the real outrage

• At last we get it - this war is Vietnam for slow learners

  25 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: Eight years of fighting has made no difference to the balance of power in Afghanistan. Only one word makes sense: exit

• As they did Ozymandias, the dunes will reclaim the soaring folly of Dubai

  20 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: This off-the-shelf city state, built on laundering the profits of oil, drugs, arms and western aid, stands on the brink

• Postman Pat makes a better banker than Fred the Shred

  18 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: After billions of bailout pounds have gone to waste, politicians could do worse than fund a Post Office people's bank

• This Thatcher mythology condemns her strengths and excuses her failings

  13 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: Twenty-five years after the miners' strike, a wave of drivel sees Thatcher daftly cast as originator of the financial crisis

• Shoesmith's biggest mistake was not to be a bank boss

  11 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: The contrast between her treatment and that of the financiers shows how far Labour has travelled from any sense of fairness

• Enough banker welfare. Hand out cash and make us spend it

  4 Mar 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: Billions have been tipped into a black hole. The economy needs urgent intravenous demand

• Bonus culture is skim, bribery, theft. Pay for performance is called salary

  20 Feb 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: For the taxes of the poor to be topping up the pay of the rich is inexcusable. The cynicism of the farrago beggars belief

• One thing unites Brown and Cameron: fear of 100 Borises

  18 Feb 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: The Tory leader protests his localism every year, but like his opponents he just can't bear the idea of giving up central power

• Scientist v statesman: who can call the battle of the bicentennial men?

  13 Feb 2009:

  Simon Jenkins: Lincoln's world may seem squalid compared with Darwin's voyage of discovery, yet progress relies on politicians too

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