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City of diamonds
The genius of the Antwerp Six
Cosmetic democracy
Britain’s new system of government
To inanity, and beyond!
A short time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, great parliamentary minds were at work, and have yet to come down to earth
Starbucks Dad solves the gender wars
But what about Starbucks Mum?
Righteousness and nations
The religiosity of national conservatism
A tale of two tribes
The diverging fates of Central Europe’s Roma and Jewish musicians
Anatomy of a medical scandal
How not thinking can infect a workplace, community or entire culture
Tory trolling
Are the Nat Cons getting mogged by Gove?
Ultra-processed health scares
UPFs are NBD
What’s in a nym?
How and why writers conceal their true selves
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
