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The politicisation of the police
British police officers are enforcing Stonewall’s wishlist
Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity?
Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay
Fair Cop?
How Stonewall turned the police into political activists
Counting the dead
How the UK failed at the logistics of death when it mattered most
Wandering women
The women who always walked alone
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Psychosis in an age of surveillance capitalism
Can an app help treat mental health issues?
Boris beware: Nigel’s making plans for you
Farage will soon return from his political grave to ensure Brexit gets done
Commoner with the divine touch
Raphael, as dedicated a lover as he was a painter, died at 37 at the height of his powers and fame, illustrates Michael Prodger
Making sense of evil
Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
