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The rise of the groupthink podcast
A long tradition in the Liddle household on a Saturday morning is to read aloud sections from the Guardian Weekend…
Racists will love it: National Theatre's Death of England – Delroy reviewed
Death of England: Delroy is a companion piece to Death of England, which ran in February at the NT and…
Can Biden avoid the debates?
In an opinion column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman proposes that Joe Biden debate Donald Trump only if…
It's time to speak out against cancel culture
Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue…
Why the Tories will be happier than Labour with tonight’s debate
Tonight’s leaders debate was a scrappy affair. The format meant that neither leader was able to get going properly and…
Ben Lerner’s much hyped latest novel reads like an audit of contemporary grievances
Things keep recurring in the novels of Ben Lerner — snatches of conversation, lines of poetry, Lerner himself. But in…
Teach First has turned me into a free speech martyr
I had the unusual experience last Sunday of appearing on a panel to defend free speech having been the victim…
There’s a right way to lose at the Oxford Union. I did the wrong way
The way not to win a debate at the Oxford Union, I’ve just discovered, is to start your speech with…
Must MPs always vote before we go to war?
Jesse Norman was permitted three minutes for his speech to the Commons in last Friday’s debate. But the contribution from…
Secret oil fields! Skewed polls! The Yes campaign is losing the plot
The success of the campaign to save the Union can be heard in the increasingly hysterical tone of independence supporters
My tax avoidance tip – win literary prizes!
David Cameron is said to want a woman to be chairman of the BBC Trust, now that Chris Patten has…
