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Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Pop on a party hat
Jazz up your wardrobe with perfect headwear
In praise of Spanish practices
What Compostela can teach the City
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
