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Blueprints for laughter, life, love and belonging
Fiction works on the understanding that none of it really happened; we agree to believe it anyway, says John Self
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
How the government has exploited our human response to danger
Olivia Hartley speaks to Laura Dodsworth about face masks, religious faith, and how public health has become a criminal justice matter
Sealed with a Glasgow kiss
From trans rights to its independence strategy, a bitter war divides one of the most popular parties in Europe
David Miller may be a loon, but sacking him would open a Pandora’s Box
Toby Young disagrees with Danny Finkelstein’s call for Miller’s sacking, saying that academic staff should be free to express whatever views they like within the law
European Research Group demand NI Protocol is scrapped
The ERG join the Protocol fight, but will No.10 change tack?
Cyril Mango: A titan of Byzantine studies
The celebrated Byzantinist Cyril Mango died earlier this month; his insight will be keenly missed by enthusiasts of Byzantine studies
Murders for late February
From countryside crimes to mysteries on the waves, Jeremy Black recommends further reading from the British Library Crime Classics collection
What could Harry and Meghan learn from history?
Have the Duke and Duchess of Sussex traded short-term PR advantage for the sake of their future reputations?
Cancelled by his college
How a panicking Cambridge institution obliterated the memory of one of its most famous sons
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.