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The epistle of St Dorries to the Sunakians
Do everything with grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Effective affinities
Moral philosophy, the individual and the future
J’adore les bleus
Antoine Dupont makes the game look easy
Life through the kaleideologyscope
Must everything be reduced to political resentment?
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
Free speech for all
Everyone hurts when the state restricts our right to speak
The case for kids
Why children are a public good
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
