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Failing to escape Brexit in Buenos Aires
You can’t escape entitled Brits whingeing about Brexit, even in Argentina. But you may encounter the ghosts of Nazis
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
Take Your Picton
Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue
The hidden trauma of identity politics
How did identity come to be political and cultural ground zero?
Will the summer recess really be a break?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion discuss what we can expect in the coming weeks
Boris’s war on obesity will fail
The government’s new anti-obesity crusade will not tackle obesity, only obesity statistics
Is this the end of cinemagoing as we know it?
Will compulsory face-masks, social-distancing and an air of paranoia drive audiences to online streaming once and for all?
Face masks make you stupid
Why face masks are a form of dehumanisation
Turkey: neither Neo-Ottoman nor Universal Islamist
Western leaders are misconstruing the nature of Turkey’s government and its mission at home and abroad
No change please, we’re British
A new counter-petition campaign is a conservative response to iconoclasm
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
