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War, Brexit, Truss and an idea for new merchandise
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From buildings to booze
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Anglo-Saxons, Clement Attlee and love for our mascot
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Self-defeating Unionists, abused animals, suffering centrists and overlooked antipodeans
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Arson, fraud and a little poetry
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Wikipedia fibs, Swiftian corrections, and non-plussed 11 year olds
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Academic follies and tinkled ivories
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Funny handshakes, BBC cover-ups, fortifying wines and the Bank of England
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Carry on, pomp and circumstance and cultural Marxism
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism