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The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
