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Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
The Tories’ immigration muddle
Why the singular focus on small boats?
Marginalising the majority
Progressive rhetoric has a projection problem
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
A question of ideology
Psychiatrists must be free to challenge dogma
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
An epochal set
Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)
The apple of my ear
Limitless choice and a rattle of regret
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
