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The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration