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Kherson — the city that never sleeps
The daily Ukrainian struggle to survive
We apologise for the inconvenience to your journey
Against the neutralisation of harm
Irrational rashers
Vegan bacon is a real horror
Prime Minister Pangloss
Rishi Sunak smiles through other people’s pain
Institutionalising orthorexia
What exactly is wrong with processed food?
The Irish experiment
Irish politicians are seeking “modernisation” without a clear sense of what that means
Whose guilt by what associations?
The dark side of activism
Callaghan’s island
Britain should fear the departure of its young
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
The sweet smell of success
The fragrance that introduces its wearer tastefully and without ostentation
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved