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The true value of trophy hunting
When big game doesn’t pay, it is replaced by cow and plough
Happy New Year, bigots
Failure to comply with my New Year’s resolutions will be considered a hate crime
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
Poet who wrote for all of us
Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
Reclaim the streets
Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return
Migrant wars
Armed militias and pro-immigrant groups battle it out in Trump Wall land
A light in the darkness
A pioneering school ofers a new vision for South Africa’s failing education system
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
How to take on the culture warriors
Determining what is and isn’t appropriate is not the job of thought-policing left authoritarians
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
