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Against war with Iran
Yet another foreign misadventure would be perilous and expensive for the USA
An ode to situated exhibitions
Art is inseparable from the poetics of place
The internationalisation of child abuse
Protecting children from predators must mean thinking globally
Taking the hawking cure
Are rental families a real thing?
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
Why are republicans still so unsuccessful?
With bad news upon bad news for the royal family, why do its political opponents remain so obscure?
All’s fair in love
Così fan tutte, English National Opera, Coliseum
How “smoke-free” went up in smoke
The campaign against vaping has been miserably counter-productive
You can’t save money without making it
We cannot be too risk averse in finance
Mind your business Britain
A struggling government turns to prohibition and regulation; a restless public may yet rediscover its taste for freedom.
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport