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Being boring

Why boring clothes are back

Fashion

Hannah Betts

Ultra processed arguments

Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat

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Christopher Snowdon

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England’s forgotten football dystopia

The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion

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Fred Skulthorp

The future that never came

Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan

Features

Nicholas Boys Smith

Reading humbly

Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism

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Kittie Helmick

St. Vincent

The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable

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D.H. Robinson

What is behind the ECHR debate?

We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates

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Luca Watson

Boris: the PM who could do no wrong

This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book

Books

Robert Hutton

Now’s your time, House of Lords

The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal

Sounding Board

Marcus Walker

Sausage to fortune

Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe

Sketch

Robert Hutton

England is not yet lost

Where else would you rather be from?

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James Harris

Defending life and liberty

Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies

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Madeleine Teahan

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