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Why update PG Wodehouse?
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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 Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system