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A Catholic conference exposed divisions in the Church
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English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
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A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create