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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon