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“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
