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Why Aristotle was right about causation
The Michael Dummett vs Antony Flew debate: What comes first, the cause or the effect?
Vince Cable’s troubling views on China
Why is Cable so keen to deny the vast ethnic prejudices of the Chinese regime?
Policing art is a slippery slope
The hunger for policing thoughts as well as bodies hasn’t been eradicated, as recent events in New Zealand show
Malaysia’s former PM says the French think insulting people is “a human right”
Kapil Komireddi interviews Dr Mahathir Mohamad about the decapitation of Samuel Paty in France, China’s treatment of Muslims, Kashmir, Brexit, and Jewish influence.
Don’t expect Biden to cut the ballooning US deficit
Under Biden, the US will continue amassing a huge deficit. Is it manageable?
A Royal fogey reassessed
Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism
The Russians aren’t coming
New music was not officially muted in the Soviet Union. It just got left at home, says Norman Lebrecht
Thursday morning blues
Anything more and they’d expect too much
International aid – size isn’t everything
The 0.7% target has only ever been an incentive for more aid, not better aid
Ethiopia weeps again
The Ethiopian prime minister’s Nobel Peace Prize appears increasingly ludicrous as he risks civil war
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
