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Counter-intelligence needs a rethink. Catching spies is not enough

‘Western counter-intelligence has been largely defensive. Given the existential threats we increasingly face, we now need to go on the offensive’

December 4, 2019

Points East & West

Dare call it treason?

"No one should miss the stench of cowardice, and yet there is no sign voters care or understand that cowardice runs through the British state"

December 4, 2019

Politics

Defining women

‘The wording of anti-trans hate-crime guidance is so vague, and so reliant on subjective interpretation, that it could be open to misuse by politically-motivated actors’

December 4, 2019

Spare Rib

Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse

Surveillance is tightening inside China—but our carelessness also gives the regime huge capabilities abroad

December 4, 2019

Features

Fare well Romania—now your heritage is secure

Reflections on the little-known efforts to save an extraordinary architectural legacy from the wrecking ball of Communism

December 4, 2019

Features

A glimpse of heaven

Schumann’s setting of Faust is an aesthetic and spiritual triumph—and now with a singer to match

December 4, 2019

Music

A multitude of dignities

Are human rights dependent on “human dignity”—and what does “human dignity” even mean?

December 4, 2019

Books

A well-armed corporation

'William Dalrymple dismantles the inadequacies of prep school history: Britain was a relatively poor, agricultural nation in 1599, while much of India was populous and rich'

October 23, 2019

Books

Blackface is evil — why isn’t drag?

‘Why is it unacceptable for white people to dress up as black, but harmless fun when men dress up as women?’

October 23, 2019

Magazine·Spare Rib

Breakfast, diabetes research, and the right to make bad jokes

'The Today Programme will survive John Humphrys leaving but will we all survive the death of the right to make poor jokes?'

October 23, 2019

Diary

Britain’s constitution needs respect, not rewriting

‘Accountability is the antithesis of independence. Judges who hold their positions at the pleasure of the executive will be expected to please the executive. Which, of course, is the whole idea’

October 23, 2019

Wig & pen

‘Capitalitis’ makes Celts cringe

The United Kingdom is under strain as never before—but the cause is obsessive centralism, not the largely mythical ‘Celtic’ identities

October 23, 2019

Features

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