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Dostoyevsky’s outrageous grotesque now runs riot in our institutions
The hollow horseman
Wole Soyinka’s postcolonial pride offers no answers to Nigeria’s Christian deaths
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
The Pryce is wrong
Didactic drama is often artistically empty and politically misleading
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How William Blake explained the dynamics of successful dissent
The cross language of flags
Progressives are missing an opportunity to prove that they value inclusion
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
How the police learn two-tier policing
The institutional culture of the university is reshaping the everyday instincts of frontline police
How The Smiths were Marred
Right-on credentials are no excuse for elevating uninspiring music
Aaron is not your hero
Framing Titus Andronicus in anti-imperialist terms misses the point
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Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands