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The day I was cancelled
A foolish figure of speech was enough to incur the hateful wrath of the politically correct mob
Is this Covid’s Second Wave?
And if it is – how worried should we be? Graham Stewart talks to Alistair Haimes
Union flags alone are not enough
Even vexed vexillologists know fighting separatism needs more than three colours
Is this the end for the National Trust?
Proposed money-generating changes could be the demise of a national treasure
Reopening schools: the case against remote education
Keeping schools closed is more harmful to children than coronavirus could ever be
Thatcher’s ‘Wiring Diagram’ and why we need it once again
We need a new Hoskyns-inspired intervention to deal with today’s cultural crisis
The man behind the Monster
Bernd Fischer and the need for precision
In praise of the military coup
Why, sometimes, military coups can be a force for good
Decentralisation and the impact of political contingencies
The historical power struggle between uniformity and decentralisation
The worrying rise of compelled speech in professional sport
The sports stars pushing back against the BLM movement
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
