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An American takes on the Yakuza 84
Why I am resigning, despite doing nothing wrong
I’m innocent, and I’ll slap anyone who says otherwise
Is this it?
Raab is not a bully — but he didn’t get results
Is drug work work?
Prohibition is better for the vulnerable
Children aren’t anyone’s property
Young people are the victims of adult double standards
Battling the body
The David fiasco would baffle Italians
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
At full steam
The birth of British railways
The wrong diagnosis
Racism is not driving disparities in maternal death
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
