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Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Oh no, not another cliche!

On Radio
Michael Henderson

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The Book of JO’B

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

Artillery Row
Michael Murphy

A failed war on fags

The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

Thank God for Brexit

The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out

Artillery Row
Tim Worstall

I don’t trust the British state

British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

The lonely death of Henry Nowak

We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

The right does need religion

Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true

Artillery Row
James Price
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Eat less chicken

Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel

Artillery Row
Ben Sixsmith

Britain’s mutilated constitution

We must restore the old to build the new

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

Devolution has been a disaster

Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project

Artillery Row
Henry Hill

Britain will be worse without hereditary peers

The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic

Artillery Row
Peter Day-Milne

Surrogacy is not a human right

Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology

Artillery Row
Lexi Ellingsworth

On a wind and a prayer

Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather

Editorial
The Critic

Censors create martyrs

Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience

Artillery Row
Stella Tsantekidou

We need a loud revival

The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians

Artillery Row
Sebastian Milbank

We must end the tyranny of the Treasury

Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

UnappEaling comedy

A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work

On Cinema
Robert Hutton
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