Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to