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Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
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Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Cringing at the cliffedge
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Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
A lesson from a century ago
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Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable