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Goths

The bats have left the bell tower

The bats have left the bell tower

What happened to goths?

Books
John Sturgis

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The Book of JO’B

James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles

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Michael Murphy

The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon

The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris

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John MacLeod

Fear and fury in Belfast

Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime

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Adam James Pollock

The screaming spires

Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom

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Freddie Attenborough

Nigel Farage, community leader

The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects

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Alex Yates

A day out at Unite the Kingdom 

Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair

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Fred Sculthorp
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Dignified design for the people

A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers

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Amelia Butler-Gallie

The pathologies of outdated ideologies

Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori

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Will Solfiac

The thin blue line must be thicker

The police are nothing without a presence in communities

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Dominic Adler

The malicious and the mad

Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity

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Neil Armstrong

Fond portrait of an odd couple

Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships

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Neil Armstrong

British comedy: a post-mortem

British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived

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David James

Farewell to an intellectual giant

Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards

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Patrick Nash

Who will pound longest?

America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?

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Eliot Wilson

Jams, jellies and EU insanity

From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation

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Tim Worstall

Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee

Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement

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