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Misconception

French Fancies

Is the Navy really open to all?

Everyday Lies

Theodore Dalrymple

Murders for November

Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland

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Jeremy Black

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Pornhub exposed

The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum

Books

Josephine Bartosch

The Candy Man can

The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers

Sketch

Robert Hutton

William Warham

A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell

Profile

Charlotte Gauthier

You were warned

Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories

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Ben Sixsmith

Cleaning up the town

As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation

Podcast

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles

Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space

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Victoria Smith

Dance with the devil

Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?

Dealing

Rufus Bird

Sean Scully in France

He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work

Studio

William Cook

Religion is here to stay

A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe

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Jacob Phillips

The horror of 7 October on film

The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages

On Television

Adam LeBor

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