The biggest threat to freedom in the West is liberalism itself
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is galvanising…
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Anti-Semitism is rife in Britain – but be wary of simple media narratives
The row over a London police officer calling a man “openly Jewish” at a pro-Palestinian march reveals the perils of…
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How Mike Johnson defied the Trumpists in Congress over Ukraine
The US Senate has approved a bill for $95bn worth of foreign aid – thanks to the Republican speaker of…
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Iran’s new doctrine has changed everything
In the days following Tehran’s missile and drone attack on Israel, flights out of Tel Aviv were booked solid.
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Robin Simcox: “Extremism is not always a black-and-white issue”
The head of the Commission for Countering Extremism on why our categories for the threats we face are “not fit…
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Scotland’s spring of discontent
Doubts are growing over Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the SNP. Will he be ousted before the next Holyrood election in…
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Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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The rise of the worried well
Caroline Crampton’s history of hypochondria shows how the internet has exacerbated health anxiety.
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Theresa May’s legacy of chaos
Tim Shipman shows how May’s charisma-free caution over Brexit made the rise of Boris Johnson inevitable.
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Salman Rushdie’s warning bell
His memoir Knife is a defence of free speech for a new age of intolerance. We should listen.
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Peter Frankopan Q&A: “If you want to write good history, read lots of novels”
The historian on retro football, easy-listening classics, and his favourite Byzantine emperor.
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Weighing the options in a country where nothing works any more
Should I give it another quarter of an hour, or cut my losses, get off the train, and drink myself…
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Inside Northern Ireland’s satanic panic
John Meagher: The Divil’s Own is a mind-boggling tale of collective nightmares, visions and ghosts.
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Should you join the 2024 gold rush?
The metal beloved of pirates and 1930s governments is booming. But investing in a volatile commodity always carries risk.
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In wine’s culture war, we’ve all been winners
The natural movement took on the rule-choked wine establishment, and has changed drinks culture for the better.
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Schumann and the arrival of spring
How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name.
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Tom Hollander’s deliciously nasty Truman Capote
In Feud: Capote vs the Swans, the actor is unpleasant to behold: a campy, sweaty homunculus. It’s a joy to…
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The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire
Jeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.
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