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Secular stigmata
Women are caught between different forms of bodily shame
Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
Liberalism’s obituarist
John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world
Killing the planet to save it
Our eco warriors have gone through the looking glass
Tracking modernity — trains in the modern world
On the complex realities of rail
A bill must be a scalpel
The new “Conversion Therapy Bill” must be precise and accurate
The deep humanity of books
Manuscripts have weathered the vicissitudes of time only thanks to human passion
The strange death of liberal Germanophilia
Do the Germans “do it better”?
Ireland’s modern reformation
One cannot shed a faith without adopting another
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower