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Can the monarchy last?
Prince Andrew’s televisual hara-kiri has imperilled the Crown, perhaps fatally
A troubled behemoth
John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy
What does AI’s possibility make us think about ourselves?
The real moral danger of ‘artificial intelligence’ is not what you think it is
House divided
A view from Oxford: All is far from well at Christ Church
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy: Quart de nuit (Deux-Elles)
Norman Lebrecht is left wanting more Dutilleux
Letter from Washington: America’s coronavirus failure
Why has the US response been so lacklustre?
White Supremacists: Anti-racists need you!
Ewa Dymek & Mateusz Dymek review Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
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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
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics