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Execution

A correctional facility

A correctional facility

Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?

Everyday Lies

Theodore Dalrymple

Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide

Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice

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Tony Dowson

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Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll

For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success

On Pop

Sarah Ditum

BoJo’s Life of Johnson

Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris

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Robert Hutton

Two-tier immigration?

Britain has its border priorities out of whack

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Sam Bidwell

This is England, nor are we out of it

Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art

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Sebastian Milbank

Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work

It is very hard to blend comedy and politics

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Ben Sixsmith

Foul play

David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football

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Bradley Strotten

The great British giveaway

The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy

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The Anonymous Internationalist

Franco-Irish vigour

Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump

Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed

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Sebastian Milbank

The US city on the banks of the Thames

Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism

On Architecture

Charles Saumarez Smith

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