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Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Bad manners
Did a Miami Art Gallery really sell a Rembrandt by accident?
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
Ace or joker?
Sturgeon’s IndyRef gamble will play into Johnson’s hands
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
Winners of the Wall Game
A confident new Germany has consigned division to history
Whose side is Tulsi Gabbard on?
A pro-Assad, anti-war presidential candidate unsettles her Democratic rivals
The man who wasn’t there
James Kirkup reviews David Cameron’s memoirs
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
