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The great grain war
Russian aggression is endangering global food supplies
Why Russia is still in business
Poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
