Lim Yunchan
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Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
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Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
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The paté of the Land
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Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam