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Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership