Augustus Pugin
A sense of palace
It’s apparently beyond us to fix one of the world’s greatest buildings
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Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
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Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
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The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
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The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
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Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
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If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
