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Kurt Vonnegut

Remembering an “effervescently affable man”

Remembering an “effervescently affable man”

Kurt Vonnegut at 100

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The Book of JO’B

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

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I don’t trust the British state

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

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The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon

The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris

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John MacLeod

Nigel Farage, community leader

The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects

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The screaming spires

Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom

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Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General

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Where is Britain’s vision?

Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming

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Right-wing fight night

A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light

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Fred Sculthorp

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Arty types: the fashionable poet

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D.J. Taylor

The shadow of the thorn tree

Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity

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Sebastian Milbank

Murders for April

Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction

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Jeremy Black

Kemi at the crossroads

Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear

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Henry Hill

No taxation on expatriation

With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous

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David Shipley

Bring back borstals

Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late

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James Price

Westminster is not Manchester

Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor

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The limits of choice

Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves

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