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Dressing for dinner

On the salad course

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

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Josephine Bartosch

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

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Noah Carl

How to fix the economy

A repentant ex-financial trader tells all

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Steve Garyson

Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?

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The summer chill

Cool soups for hot days

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Restore the King James Bible

Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken

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How to build a Europe of the peripheries

Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany

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Anna Richards

The problem with price freezes

Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think

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Nice Tice

Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?

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Robert Hutton

Indefinite leave, unlimited access

While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state

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Fred de Fossard

“You can’t preach here!”

A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech

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Ciarán Kelly

An artful chip

Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper

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Eulogy for rural life

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