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Don’t kill liberty to save it
Big government does not deserve greater powers to make up for its mistakes
George Osborne: Midwife of Reform
Cameron’s Chancellor did more than most to allow Farage’s party to triumph
The decline of the great literary name
Where are the Don Quixotes and the Anna Kareninas of the modern age?
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
AI of the beholder
Instead of destroying the arts, artificial intelligence will redeem them
Why does this record exist?
Wilhelm Furtwängler: 2nd symphony (Chandos)
On the bull’s side
To appreciate bullfighting is to admire the bull
Come off it, Stonewall
The group has long been an unreliable guide to the law
Why banks collect art
What started as one banker’s obsession is now an €850 million asset — and a powerful branding tool
There’s no evidence for menu calorie counts
Calorie counts on menus are thoughtless puritanism, masquerading as science
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools