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Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth