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Original sin
Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera
In search of the right stuff
Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
The Falklands War
How important was it that Britain won?
Bloody vegans
Patrick Galbraith on the complex ethics of butter substitutes
Letter from Washington: Andrew Cuomo and the shamelessness epidemic
If only the New York governor felt a little shame
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
The rare breed of the conservative rock star
It is a strange world we live in when a musician’s personal politics leads to as much uproar as Winston Marshall’s case has
In the public “I”
Instagram activism serves the self instead of solving the problem
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape