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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
