Stoicism
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
I miss the stiff upper lip
Some social constructions deserve to be kept
The Queen contra modernity
Why we should keep her values alive
The shows should go on
Would the Queen want us to cancel events?
When it’s great to be British
The country of understatement and the stiff upper lip responds well in a crisis
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British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
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The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
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Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
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A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
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A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one