Miners’ Strike
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
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The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
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Green eggs and flam
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Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
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As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Censors create martyrs
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Empire State Madrid
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Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
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