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A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed
The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools
Most oppressed people ever
Irish neutrality denialism is just the latest way to remain downtrodden
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA