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The problem with trying to resuscitate dying languages
Ross Perlin is determined to support the ‘last speakers’ of endangered tongues, such as Seke. But if these speakers really are the last, they are not, in any real sense, speaking
The horrors of the ‘Upskirt Decade’
The century began as a monstrous time to be famous and female – epitomised by the Tulsa judge who, in 2006, seemed to rule that no woman had a right to privacy in public
Broken dreams
Interviewing the Continent’s refugees and poorest rural inhabitants, Ben Judah reveals a world far removed from Brussels politics or Eurovision optimism
Accusations of racism have lost all meaning
The War on the West is Douglas Murray’s latest blast against loony left wokery, chiefly in the areas of race…
Has the past decade blunted our sense of the duty of care?
Modern British history can be divided into two parts: before Covid and after. That is the central pillar of this…
Julie Burchill has found a new way to provoke: she’s turned sincere
The greatest ever social media spat took place before the first tweet was sent, and was conducted via fax, which…
Relish — and cultivate — your grievances
Grudges make the world go around, according to Sophie Hannah. They are ‘an important and fascinating part of human experience’,…
Songs of the blood and the sword
Jihadi Culture might sound like a joke title for a book, like ‘Great Belgians’ or ‘Canadian excitements’. But in this…
If only Britain knew how it was viewed abroad
22 June 2024 9:00 am
If the country were a person, it would need its friends to sit it down and deliver it a few home truths about its damaging behaviour to itself and others, says Michael Peel