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Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
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Saint Nicola
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The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
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The Walliams dilemma
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We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
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Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
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