More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
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Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
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a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The Reparations Game
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The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
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