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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?