Gnostics
Our age of anxiety
Modern progressives are revolting against nature
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)