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Stocking the trophy cabinet
Britain’s rich store of status symbols is a key driver of foreign investment
AI: is the end nigh?
Evaluating the threat to mankind from artifical intelligence
Hubris of a scientific giant
The disgrace of Didier Raoult, the scientific giant who touted a worthless Covid “cure”
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
A forgotten British great: Smelfungus
Now languishing in undeserved obscurity, Tobias Smollett should be remembered
Kill or be killed: the charming cut-throats of the wild frontier
Visiting the site of a long-forgotten siege in the Hindu Kush
Appreciating the small and recherché
There is still some unspoiled Surrey country to be enjoyed
Holiday reads by the recently departed
1980s fiction might more profitably fill your beach-y or gîte-y afternoons
The cat in a hat
A colourful glimpse into a dramatic feast of sex and death
Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade