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The talented (if very odd) Patricia Highsmith
On the 100th anniversary of her birth, Highsmith remains one of the great uncompromising writers of the last century
The Northern Ireland Protocol
David Scullion speaks to the DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson MP
What the Protocol border inside the UK is doing
What Jeffrey Donaldson thinks the government should do about that
Producer, Genius, Madman, Murderer – what will Phil Spector’s true legacy be?
For all his apparently endless faults, we have just witnessed the passing of one of music’s true geniuses
The Donald and me
In July 2005 Donald Trump became my best, new friend
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Paul Heaton: an undervalued musical genius
For all his success, Heaton remains surprisingly niche – which is probably just how he likes it
Edward Elgar: Partsongs, From the Bavarian Highlands (BR Klassik)
The Bavarian Radio singers’ command of English will have to improve when Sir Simon Rattle arrives to take over
Museums need to refocus on their collections
Dinah Casson’s book will inspire and galvanise anyone involved in British provincial museums
Letter from Washington: The curious case of Senator Lankford
Who deserves to live in ignominy and who deserves a path back?
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead