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Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
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England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
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Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
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Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
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Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth