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Hypocrisy: the crack beneath Ireland’s craic
The “neutral” Republic relies on NATO while lecturing the world on human rights
Seriously funny
David Lodge’s work appealed to the highbrow as much as lovers of lowbrow farce
Paul Simon: still crazy after all these years
The consummate singer-songwriter still delights his fans at the age of 83
No place like home
The crisis facing London renters
Don’t blame Islam for grooming gangs
The tight-knit clan structure of many in the Pakistani community lies at the root of the sex abuse scandal
Universities must face the music
It is not too late to fix education’s arts crisis
The city that forgot itself
The tortured twentieth-century history of the once cosmopolitan Thessaloniki
How I became an art collector
An unlikely passion
A memorial fit for a Queen
If something is built in memory of Queen Elizabeth, it must be superlative
How to botch a war
A cluster-bumble of the greatest magnitude
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?