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Is Nicola Sturgeon Amnesia’s Patient Zero?
David Davis’s “whistleblower” has dropped a bomb. How long can Sturgeon run for cover?
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism