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Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak