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Power to the pigs and les keufs
France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
Queer as a Chocolate Orange
Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”
Court out
Court delays and backlogs gave the government wide margins of authority during Covid-19
The new Covid-19 strain is a political disaster of our own making
By seeking answers to scientific questions no-one had asked, we find ourselves assigning importance to discoveries which may have none
Scars: stories of human resilience
Scars affect how we are seen and are often imbued with negative connotations – but instead of seeing a scar, can we see a story?
Ofcom threatens diversity of opinion
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?
Murders for January
Jeremy Black recommends the best murder mysteries to read in the New Year
It’s all a conspiracy
It’s not fair that Remain lost or that Trump won, once. These things are unconscionable and therefore diabolical
Kicked out of the Comedy Club
Andrew Doyle wonders why so many comedians are offended by the satire of Titania McGrath