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How do the police not know the law?
They should stop investigating non-crimes
Pregnant people
Can we not call women women?
An overdone “emergency”
The effects of soaring gas prices on inflation are likely to be transitory
Psychoanalysing autocrats
How the West tries to understand its enemies
Are the Germans doing it better?
Putting the UK’s economic performance in perspective
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Mugged by a mud-caked spud
Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense
A whole pot of Rosie
Drinks for a downpour
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
