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Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
