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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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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
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall