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A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
