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No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
The only way is up
It’s narrow, man, a narrow path to victory
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Backing horses
Britain should value a homegrown success story
Team players
Why are some athletes better in teams than on their own?
Sport’s spoilsports
Sport should keep video officiating to a minimum
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?
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
