University of Cambridge
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
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The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Beauty from the ruins of war
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The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
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n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
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How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Why assisted dying failed
It was dangerous and it had no democratic mandate
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all