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Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
The Victoria Tower Gardens plot
The Government’s building plans set a dangerous precedent for London parks
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
Euthanasia isn’t progressive
It’s been done elsewhere and the results are horrifying
No exceptions for single-sex wards
But can’t we agree to make more space for transsexuals?
Trans lobby capture Childline
James Esses’s career was ruined when he spoke out about gender ideology
The future of work
Remote work brings us to a moment of decision
Silenced at Speakers’ Corner
Hate crimes operate as a contemporary, de facto blasphemy law
Playing the wild card
“Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
