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Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Most Read
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
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible