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Tracey Follows

Tracey Follows is the author of The Future of You. She tweets at @traceyfutures

Your face is the new interface

The ugly future of facial recognition

Artillery Row

Tracey Follows

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince

Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?

Sketch

Robert Hutton

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Medieval treasures of Germany

Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations

Studio

George Young

Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy

It is good for women and it is good for children

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Beatrice Scudeler

Riddle of the Pylons

Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire

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Robert Hutton

Ireland must accept the Cass Review

The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition

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Sandra Adams

Take a bow

This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life

Fashion

Hannah Betts

My “state of the nation” book

England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain

Artillery Row

Ben Sixsmith

British industry has forgotten how to use its voice

Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government

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Chris Bayliss

The grand Budapest hotel

The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think

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Tom Jones

If Donald Trump wins, it’s over

Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence

Woke World

Titania McGrath

When the music stopped

A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism

Features

Alexandra Wilson

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