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Dreaming of la dolce vita in the deep freeze

A cultural renaissance is underway in a region once synonymous with Stalin’s brutal gulags

My days as a Chinese spy

A mysterious 72 hours in Hong Kong for a lucrative lobbying job ended up being something much more sinister…

The lady vanishes

TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie

The leftist who saved Britain

Both Blair and Biden ceded power to left wing rivals; only one was a success…

The mask of authority

All of us need to answer hard questions about the decisions we made during the pandemic

Slaves to bad history

The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment

Danger: semantic engineers at work

The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act

Literature’s year zero

One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever

Tom’s curious heirs

Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform

The EV delusion

Huge economic and infrastructure challenges must be overcome if electric vehicles are to become anything more than toys for middle class drivers