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In an enchanted glen
The pinnacle of Scottish cuisine and French design are served at Glenturret
Boom and bust redux
The Bank of England’s latest blunder will lead the country into a damaging recession
“Reputational risk” is rot
Business is obsessed by this pseudoscientific nonsense
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
The baddies who don’t know they are
A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom
Brought to book
Vexed by Insta videos and impressed by Venice
Happy to be a heretic
Difference is not betrayal and opinions are not violence
On international law
International law is often far less clear than it might sound
Saving Gaza with a Queer intifada
Saving the world with slam poetry
Silent night
The agony of global Christianity goes unheard in the West
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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
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics