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Heaven & hell

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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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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

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

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Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia

The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous

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Beauty from the ruins of war

Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality

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Rewatching the English

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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system

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Robert Hutton

The government must defuse a legal time bomb

Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions

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A load of Bolls

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How Donald Trump betrayed himself

President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place

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