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What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
The hollow horseman
Wole Soyinka’s postcolonial pride offers no answers to Nigeria’s Christian deaths
Carry on carrying on …
Why the comedy film series should return
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
No, Cheney was not the boss of Bush
The idea that the War on Terror was the work of a hardline cabal is too simplistic
Our age of anxiety
Modern progressives are revolting against nature
Republican moralists are total hypocrites
Are unionist parties in Northern Ireland at last standing up to Sinn Fein?
It’s time for COP to be realistic
Even Bill Gates thinks climate alarmism is overblown
Why Britain is being framed as the new enemy
Podcasters, amateur historians and America’s populist right have joined the assault
My kitchen confessions
I wasn’t cut out for the life of a chef
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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
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life