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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
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition