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The strange death of Tory pragmatism
Why can’t the Conservatives get things done?
Kherson — the city that never sleeps
The daily Ukrainian struggle to survive
We apologise for the inconvenience to your journey
Against the neutralisation of harm
Irrational rashers
Vegan bacon is a real horror
Prime Minister Pangloss
Rishi Sunak smiles through other people’s pain
Institutionalising orthorexia
What exactly is wrong with processed food?
The Irish experiment
Irish politicians are seeking “modernisation” without a clear sense of what that means
Whose guilt by what associations?
The dark side of activism
Callaghan’s island
Britain should fear the departure of its young
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
