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Buckle down or buckle under
If Canada’s conservative party can’t hold together, they can resign themselves to opposition status
Prisoner of conscience
Ceri Black faces prosecution for tweeting that child rapists and their enablers should be stopped
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
Night time is the right time to fight crime (and party)
It was Schrödinger’s party: it happened, except it didn’t
Wake up and smell the free country
Chris Bryant’s absurd rhetoric deepens cultural divisions in one of the most tolerant countries on earth
Hold a mirror up to France
Imagine the Channel migrant crisis were reversed — who would the media blame?
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
Remotely wishing you a Merry Christmas
Woefully out of touch and with falling congregations, the Church of England faces a crisis of leadership and theology
Murders for early December
Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era