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Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
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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
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté