How does anything ever get built?
Builders have to meet ever proliferating regulations while single-issue pressure groups wield an effective veto
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British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
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The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The ephemeral Farage
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