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Awfully queer science
There are dangers to mixing ideology into our biology
The worst reply guys on Twitter
A taxonomy of tedious Tweeters
Cosmopolis lost
The Erasmus scheme is the legacy of a lost Europe
More than merely a magician with words
The poetry of Tennyson is no gorgeous trick of words, no siren song
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
No art form is more subtle, more visceral, more preposterous and more life-affirming than opera
The justice system is enabling criminals
Britain needs more prison cells and stiffer sentences for dangerous violent men
Against the Guinness cult
It is time we stopped making so much fuss about a distinctly average beer
AI will make our children stupid
We are creating a terrible learning environment for the young
Talk of war is political performance art
The British establishment does not see war as a realistic prospect
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves