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Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
