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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
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
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Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised