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Dehumanisation

Killed, not “neutralised”

Killed, not “neutralised”

“neutralise”

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Theodore Dalrymple

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A shameful Bill

Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration

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Going Green

A day out with Zack Polanski and friends

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Fred Sculthorp

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

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Pleasure and persuasion

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Norman Lebrecht

A revolutionary king

The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact

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Russia’s useful internet addicts

No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values

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Ben Sixsmith

The soul of Putin

Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe

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Lisa Haseldine

Keep the state out of sex

Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom

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Tom Jones

Offence archaeology and the future of elections

We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology

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Chris Bayliss

When art took on fascism (and lost)

Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production

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Pierre d’Alancaisez

Against the scolding mob

MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks

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Henry Hill

The futility of right-wing cancel culture

Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong

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A high-speed tour of European History

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Sebastian Milbank

AI podcasts give me the creeps

The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be

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How religion shapes football fandom

The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith

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