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Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Mistletoe and whine
What is the real reason for the season?
The suburbanisation of Stonehenge
Spiritual clichés offer no more than mere commerce
Powerless heritage
Battersea Power Station is an architectural waxwork
Mugged by a mud-caked spud
Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
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