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Letter from Washington: Do Democrats really want to learn from 2020?
A supposedly honest election post-mortem is a symptom of the party’s problems
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Writing bigly
Jordan Peterson’s trouble with his publisher will look mild when compared with Donald Trump’s impending book
The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Black Spartacus
The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti
Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling
The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
Continued mask wearing won’t help us return to normal
Psychologists know it will do the opposite
Arafat and me
David Smith on the time he spent with Yasir Arafat, the former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
How the DVSA is driving young people mad
Driving tests should be much more accessible than they are
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
