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Hipsters: eco-friendly heirs to William Morris
Middle class millennials in search of the good life
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers