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Schoolboy error
The folly of public schools’ race to embrace the religion of wokeness
Big Mac and fries matter
Michael Collins on the issue-led rehabilitation of a fast food giant
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Beating the wrong drum
The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
Out of Africa
To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi
