Bugsy Siegel
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
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The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Bach in black
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