Robert Conquest
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
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 underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
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how to acquire an
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The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour