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Fur Farming

The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis

The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis

Poland votes to ban fur farming and ritual slaughter

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

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Christopher Snowdon

Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
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Lisa Hilton

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

Artillery Row
Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

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Steve Garyson

Among the true believers

Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat

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A load of Bolls

Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop

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Pedro Gonzalez

Britain’s mutilated constitution

We must restore the old to build the new

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Sebastian Milbank

Is our law praiseworthy?

In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb

On Law
Yuan Yi Zhu

By the by-elections

Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections

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John MacLeod

The end of anonymity?

The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies

Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough

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Victoria Smith

The decline of British food culture

The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato

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Arthur Reynolds

Bring back literary vendettas

Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds

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The Secret Author

Right-wingers must rediscover their principles

Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable

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Protagoras

Has the arts sector learned nothing?

Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal

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