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Hymns

Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred     

Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred     

Hymns can be as catchy as popular music

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What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

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A shameful Bill

Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration

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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

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Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist

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Haskel’s challenge

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William Nixon

The emperor’s new AI

A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion

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Andrew Orlowski

Britain’s mutilated constitution

We must restore the old to build the new

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The disunited kingdom

The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK

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Charlie Napier

Infamous five

To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names

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What difference does he make?

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Restore the King James Bible

Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken

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Marcus Walker

Selling the commons

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James Alexander Smith

Boriswave denialism

Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option

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