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Julien Benda is as relevant today as he was in 1927
The unheard lessons of howling feedback
Separating the signal from the noise
The Qing-quisition
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unconquered by a
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
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Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The strange birth of woo-woo
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Welcome to the low-trust economy
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