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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
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long