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The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?
The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom