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Killed, not “neutralised”

Killed, not “neutralised”

“neutralise”

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Theodore Dalrymple

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Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
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Lisa Hilton

A shameful Bill

Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration

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Chris Bayliss

Going Green

A day out with Zack Polanski and friends

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

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Victoria Smith

Pleasure and persuasion

Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)

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Norman Lebrecht

When all you have is a Hermer

Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General

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Why must everything move to Manchester?

Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms

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Alexandra Wilson

The bonfire of British history

Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground

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Samuel McIlhagga

The problem with optimisation

Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life

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Ben Sixsmith

Banish the business bullshit

Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes

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Ned

The simple joy of giallo

Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism

Artillery Row
Brad Pearce

These violent delights

Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show

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Robert Thicknesse

The last thing Labour needs

The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together

Artillery Row
Adam James Pollock

Gruesome twosomes

Considering culinary mismatches

Table Talk
Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Losing control of the narrative

The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration

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Sebastian Milbank

Kemi always gets it right

Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.

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