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Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious