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Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
The gang of four
Remembering a classic British race
Restoring the numinous
The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Ireland’s gender Jesuits
Give me the child, and I will show you the non-binary adult
Havana splendid time
On the joy of cigar smoking
Brave new sperm
How men and women are being encouraged to extend their fertility
Who’s afraid of Suella Braverman?
The Home Secretary’s dangerous, xenophobic agenda of locking up criminals must be stopped
The strange death of Spain
A power-hungry socialist Prime Minister has struck a deal with separatists
Fiddling as Rome burns
Don’t be neutral about Suella the firefighter
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
