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Child sexual abuse and the seal of confession
New legislation will not help children
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Reconstructing a self-destructive life
One thing in Roth’s messy existence makes him worth our time: his writing
Tackling men’s problems
More male nurses may not be enough to fill an existential hole
Close the Confucius Institutes
Britain should not be enabling Chinese soft power
Why standards matter
Take off your trainers, Mr Peston
The scammer in you
Sam Bankman-Fried is not unique
The regal rise of le petit caporal
Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution
A cupful of cash
Qatar 2022: tournament of shame
Back to Blair
This budget offers nothing but managed decline
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
