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What’s in a name?

25 November 2023 9:00 am

The Establishment wins again

18 November 2023 9:00 am

Hope might be the only strategy Sunak has left

11 November 2023 9:00 am

The first King’s Speech for more than 70 years was a festival of the expected: the royal reading of a…

Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…

Are you a creative or a destructive?

11 November 2023 9:00 am

There is a stage direction in The Glass Menagerie in which Tennessee Williams describes a tune that will recur through…

Starmer’s foreign policy problem is only just beginning

4 November 2023 9:00 am

This could have been the week that Keir Starmer buckled under pressure from his party and called for a ceasefire…

Is this where world war three starts?

4 November 2023 9:00 am

  Daugavpils   You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…

When righteous anger goes wrong

4 November 2023 9:00 am

From abroad I’ve returned to a country where, in language to which the word ‘shrill’ hardly does justice, fellow British…

It’s time to cut our ties with Qatar

4 November 2023 9:00 am

A friend of mine was recently doing business with the Qataris. Nothing strange there: a lot of people have in…