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Why we need a common faith
Is there any clear route out of the philosophical modernity and nihilism that plague our reality?
“Meme”
From a German zoologist to internet burns, Dominic Green charts the history of the word meme
Ad-vent season
Claudia Savage-Gore fumes over the PTA’s latest “voluntary” wheeze
My Brexit hell
The press suffering was not the only point
Giya Kancheli: Poetry of Silence (Gramola)
Kancheli’s miniatures grip you by the throat and won’t let you do anything else until it’s over
Britain’s love affair with port
Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
Anoraks at half-mast
Tom Chesshyre on the death of a train-spotters’ paradise
Citizen of nowhere
Street names go woke, David Brent gets his wish, a historian quotes the past and The Vicar of Dibley takes the knee
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
