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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 sweet smell of success
The fragrance that introduces its wearer tastefully and without ostentation
Get in the van, sunshine!
The spirit of Voltaire was notably absent in parliament
Wrestling with recovery
There is no binary between sickness and health
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
