Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Defending an outdoor smoke
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In defence of the right to addictions
Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
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Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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a fairer way out of a
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Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Green eggs and flam
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Europe’s French nuclear shield?
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offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Dangerous liasons
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American crusades
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Working with Woods
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