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Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules