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Executing the wills
The destruction of Britain’s probate records archive must be averted
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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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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
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Storycraft is soulcraft
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The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
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Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
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Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom