Viktor Bout
The art of the bad deal
How could the US have released Viktor Bout?
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English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
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