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Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
The vast plight of the Proms
The end of BBC Four is a death sentence for BBC Orchestras and the Proms alike
A big day for women’s rugby
Fairness and safety should be upheld
Johnson’s disrespect for the law
The PM repeatedly showed a cavalier attitude towards constitutional conventions
In arcadia ego
Finite life and Infinite Jest
The silence that tells Joe Biden who his real allies are
Irish reluctance to support Ukraine presents Unionists with an opportunity to counter American Brit-bashing over the Protocol reforms
Farewell to St Benet’s Hall
How a Catholic institution capitulated to the non-binary gods of diversity
Blood and soil: the Greens’ fascist roots
Today’s environmental movement owes much to the ideology of Britain’s pre-war Right
Preaching the gospel of progressivism
Make the monarchy a spiritual vacuum, and it will soon be filled with nihilism
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons