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Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
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A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
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Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
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Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
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Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
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Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
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Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
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The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival