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The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose