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Eugenics and the intellectual left
To what extent should we separate an artist’s work from their period, character and ideas?
Capturing the wrong picture
Why bother with accuracy when you can get away with approximation?
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
Why is Britain good at R&D but has so few major tech companies?
Mike Lynch offers his solutions – from ARM to post-Brexit regulation
The unremarkable truth about America’s Covid response
The US handling of Covid-19 does not make it a ‘failed state’
Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Public exams are the only fair way to test pupils
Cancelling exams would only widen educational inequality
China’s Long March
How should the UK and its allies treat the rise of China?
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
Why is the Anglosphere hated?
CANZUK deserves debate, not character assassination
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
