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Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Crucified again
Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism
Judging the judges
The way forward is clear: we need another Constitutional Reform Act, writes Joshua Rozenberg
Happy New Year, bigots
Failure to comply with my New Year’s resolutions will be considered a hate crime
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Irregular and unequal
Is inequality really a disease? The chairman of the British Medical Association thinks so…
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light