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DfID is internally permitting one-sided activism to the extent of appearing to adopt it
The Long March or the Big Push?
How quickly can Labour recover from its 2019 disaster?
Before the Beautiful Game
Kester Aspden reflects on his football memories growing up supporting York City and Burnley FC
Decline of the sclerotic West
Richard Reinsch reviews The Decadent Society, by Ross Douthat
Oxford is fallen
What do they know of faith who only multi-faith spaces know?
History wars
Churchill’s statue was attacked because he symbolises the continuity of the nation
Letter from Washington: Conservatism’s entente discordiale
America’s religious right questions the deals it has cut
Property is Speech
Tearing down Edward Colston’s statue conceals the past and suppresses the speech of the dead
The man who invented Gaslighting
Patrick Hamilton, the writer who inadvertently coined the term, had his own victims
Jamestown Year 1
Capture the past and shape the future
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
