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Comfort zone
Hannah Betts chooses chic alternatives to dull sweatpants
Letter from Washington: What were they thinking?
A question to which there is no exonerating answer
The weather is racist
Standing to pee is transphobic, the police hire woke commissars and German activists re-name the weather
You had to be there
Riotous good fun for someone in No 10
The French Revolution and its legacy
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart, about France’s eighteenth-century revolutionary ferment
Why feminists should oppose the death penalty
Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice
How the rise of digital technology facilitated lockdown
Philosopher Mark Sinclair warns against the slippery slope of technological thinking
History shows that violence is ‘as American as cherry pie’
Violence is intrinsic to America and we shouldn’t expect it to cease being so when Donald Trump leaves office
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
Most Read
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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space