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Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
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Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
Good old New Society
It was a magazine whose influence extended beyond its readership
Good luck…
David Goodhart wishes The Critic every success
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
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We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue