crusades
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Holy wars and unlikely alliances
The Crusades were not a straightforward clash of civilisations: both sides were too internally divided
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Digging for gold
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Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy