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Mish-firing on all cylinders
Boris seeks adulation from an emptying theatre
That was then, this is now
It’s a kindness of friends not to look at what we’re doing
Good COP, bad COP
Why would our friends even want to give us Covid?
Boris’s Tricky Dicky problem
When Carrie does it, that means it’s legal
Tall, smooth, and surprisingly affordable
This sort of thing never happened at Bloomberg
It’s a sad, sad situation
The bold standard
Who are friends to judge us?
It turns out the system was wrong, we now discover
Bezos’s sub-prime delivery
One is a billionaire with visions of conquering space — the other is Hugo Drax
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Have cake, hate cake
The Sun-Chancellor is having his cake, and hating himself for eating it
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
