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France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing

Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases

Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”

Court delays and backlogs gave the government wide margins of authority during Covid-19

By seeking answers to scientific questions no-one had asked, we find ourselves assigning importance to discoveries which may have none

Scars affect how we are seen and are often imbued with negative connotations – but instead of seeing a scar, can we see a story?

Is it actually the function of our cultural institutions to reflect society as divided into arbitrary interest groups; and, even so, is it any business of the state, acting through Ofcom?

Jeremy Black recommends the best murder mysteries to read in the New Year

It’s not fair that Remain lost or that Trump won, once. These things are unconscionable and therefore diabolical

Andrew Doyle wonders why so many comedians are offended by the satire of Titania McGrath