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Online banking’s ‘great service’
Dealing with your bank online makes the Labyrinth seem like a Roman Road
Sing it again, Frank
Michael Henderson listens once more to the Great American Songbook, most enriching of entertainments
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
Warming is not the only threat
Our response to Covid-19 has shown us that national security depends on more than tanks, planes and climate preparedness
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
A moral case for Universal Basic Income
A neoliberal argument for UBI based on individual freedom and property rights
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
