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Falling into addiction
Drug addiction is not something that just happens to you
Counterfeit Cleese
Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole
Man in the middle
Football needs more respect for referees
Can Sunak turn the polls around?
It might be prudent for the Conservatives to plan for defeat but it is difficult to do
Ashes to ashes
Cricket memories to be treasured
The sorcerer of speed
Stirling Moss performed almost supernaturally
A rejoinder to the rejoiners
The remainer hullabaloo about the costs of Brexit has been wrong
How Napoleon won in the end
British business leaders have much to learn from their shrewd French counterparts
Boom time
The burdens of being a national treasure, treacherous boy wizards and neglected English roses
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
