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Why the Odyssey matters
Its themes will always be relevant to the human experience
Mad, genius?
A new book attempts to untangle a right-wing mystery
Indhu Rubasingham’s first season: time to be excited?
She promises a switch from the modernity-at-all-costs ethos of the Norris regime
How Labour lost the North East
The deep generational loyalty to Labour has frayed to threads
Our Great Leader Nigel
Never be the first to stop clapping
The rise of sectarian social media
A sectarian media environment is forming to enable our sectarian politics
You have a patriotic duty to champion British food
Insulting British cuisine is not just lazy, it is downright libellous
Lessons from the lady of the Mercians
Alfred’s daughter Aethelflaed should inspire the next MP of Runcorn
Resist the home education clampdown
Labour’s bill would turn home-educating families into surveillance targets
Kemi should abolish the College of Policing
The Tory leader wants to scrap “non-crime hate incidents”, but she should abolish the root cause
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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
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
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