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Uncommon entrance

Hector’s Common Entrance is looming

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The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation

How Donald Trump made populism funny

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Poor conduct

Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)

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Ultra processed arguments

Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat

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Christopher Snowdon

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

Aggers declares — the end of an era

It has been an assured innings, and a long one

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Michael Henderson

South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes

Political change must lead to economic change as well

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Martin van Staden

Accidental Orientalism

Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history

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Alec Siantonas

Back in the arena

If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II

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Robert Hutton

Good, mostly clean, fun

The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

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Robert Thicknesse

Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy

Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No

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Christopher Snowdon

The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East

Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy

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Matthew Petti

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