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Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
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The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
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Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
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