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On giving up my smartphone
Giving up your device isn’t liberating. It’s tedious.
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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
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real