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The baddies who don’t know they are
A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom
Clothes maketh the nation
How servants of the Crown dress is not trivial. It refl ects Britain’s decline
Human nature
We must understand our vices as well as our virtues
Turbulent priests
How should the clergy best engage in politics and public disputes?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy