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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
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Revolution by Sam Larner
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom