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Should I buy a horse?
My desire to stay green is leading me to the bridleway of despair
What Magdalen College students get wrong
It is bizarre in the extreme to focus criticism of empire on the Crown
A victory for free speech and sex-based rights
Maya Forstater’s win at the Employment Appeals Tribunal is a victory for humanity
Big Bozza is not watching us
Cuts are increases. Good deals are bad
Labour don’t want women’s votes
Keir Starmer’s endorsement of self-ID will do little to persuade voters that the Labour Party is alive to the concerns of ordinary people
A contemptible little army?
How successfully did Britain’s armed forces adapt to the reality of the First World War?
Stonewall is being true to itself
Their focus on trans rights is just a logical step forwards
The unexpected Brexit bonus
Britain’s vaccination success has saved lives and will boost economic output by billions
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
The problem with reporting “ethnic pay gaps”
Pay disparity does not prove an underlying system of discrimination
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
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”
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
