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War of attrition
The conflict in Ukraine may yet end in stalemate
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
Sectarian cinema?
It may not be easy, but multicultural societies must embrace liberal values if they are to survive
Where do you draw the line?
The West should think twice before providing endless weaponry to Ukraine
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion
Joining the dots on sexism
Parliament’s creepy sexualised culture resurrects throwback stereotypes