Life has become the avoidance of death
In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
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The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The Boston barbarians
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why traditional topiary is
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Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes