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Criminal justice chaos

Criminal justice chaos

After three years in which the issue of criminal justice barely flickered onto the Downing Street radar, one might have expected those working within the system to be encouraged by the mood
September 18, 2019
Agencies of disruption

Agencies of disruption

Heidi Tworek’s shrewd, erudite and timely News from Germany is a work of historical analysis that can also be read as a corrective to the dangerous hysteria over the information games—fake news
June 26, 2019
Bank notes

Bank notes

Now he tells us. Governor Mark Carney of the Bank of England has been advising us on our investments. Be careful, he says. Before putting money in, ask yourself how easy it
June 26, 2019
Bedside manna

Bedside manna

A series of health scares recently put me in the way of varied styles of medical communication. After a fainting episode at work necessitated a number of anxiety-inducing tests, I discovered that
June 26, 2019
Call of the mild

Call of the mild

Michael Gove’s Wild Animals in Circuses Bill appears at first glance to be nothing more than his latest essay in exhibitionistic compassion. There are, after all, fewer than 20 performing animals left
June 26, 2019
Calm before the storm

Calm before the storm

Too often political events on either side of the Atlantic are portrayed as being analogous. Too much is made of the superficial similarities between unrelated events. The Leave vote in the 2016
June 26, 2019
Charisma and catastrophe

Charisma and catastrophe

Of making many books about Hitler there is no end; and much study of him is a weariness of the flesh. Two more are out this summer, both by historians capable of
June 26, 2019
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