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When the magic of nature becomes a curse
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
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Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
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Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define