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Leave the EU to be the EU
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself