Richard Holmes
More than merely a magician with words
The poetry of Tennyson is no gorgeous trick of words, no siren song
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
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English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
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Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
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Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
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No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
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A new heist movie is basic and fun
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman