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I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Is Britain on borrowed time?
As decades of borrowing have left public finances exposed, a sovereign debt crisis is a real risk
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
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Bicinia (Claves)
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Self-inflicted misery
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Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks