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The liberal hero who sealed in Ulster’s sectarianism
John Hume, 1937-2020
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unconquered by a
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
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The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad