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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
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Information rage
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Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
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In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
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