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What does Black Lives Matter mean for Africa?
BLM have few words for the continent with the largest number of vulnerable black lives
Letter from Washington: To burn or not to burn?
What a Never-Trump divide says about the future of the Republican Party
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
Out With a Bang
It’s the end of the road for Lebanon
How united is Italy?
Professor Jeremy Black and Political Editor Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Two Cheers for Nuclear Proliferation
An obsession with the dangers of proliferation overlooks its positive effects
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
