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The Cummings I knew
Did Dominic Cummings learn his management style from Klute Nightclub in Durham?
Biden’s Latin lesson
How Hispanic voters across the country returned historic swings to Trump
Fabricator and fraudster
Fabricator and fraud
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
Defender of the faith
Daniel Johnson remembers Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, wise and generous friend, guide and mentor
The pardoner’s tale
Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring
It takes all sorts
Patrick Galbraith on rural racism and the fear of outsiders
Britain’s last conservative prime minister
A new collection of essays provides a welcome reappraisal of Labour leader James Callaghan, says Graham Stewart
Glorious mud
Nick Cohen is badly bitten by the cross-country bug
Piers and the gospel of gammon
The last thing I need is some repugnant gammon scumbag like Morgan polluting the world with his moronic boomer ideas
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
