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Books

A conspiracy unmasked

Despite having no instinct for organisation and never using the jargon of modern business management, Margaret Thatcher had extraordinary political instincts. These are a central theme of Herself Alone, the third volume

October 23, 2019

African reset: will Covid-19 bring change?

It is tempting to hope that ordinary people will rise up and

Features

A boy’s own adventure

Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue

Art·Drawing Board

A breath of fresh paint

A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture

Art·Drawing Board

A hinge in history

The tumult in Kiev 15 years ago seemed a victory for progress

Features

John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for "shockers.

Critique

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for

The scale of economic inequality across the UK is scandalous.

Features

A focus on economic growth is too narrow

The scale of economic inequality across the UK is scandalous. Roads and

Counterpoints

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Counterpoints

Letters: Parents first, Ancient and modern, Seeing red

Angela Ritch laments the failures of today’s parents (Education, July): they are “ill-equipped to prepare their children” for today’s education; their “engagement and responsibility

October 21, 2020

Counterpoints

Tristram Shandy and the consolations of comedy

The story of “A COCK and a BULL . . . And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard”:

August 28, 2020

The tiny country's success at tackling coronavirus.

Counterpoints

Central American exceptionalism: Costa Rica faces la pandemia

The tiny country’s success at tackling coronavirus

July 10, 2020

On the role of public buildings in lockdown.

Counterpoints

A mental balm

On the role of public buildings in lockdown

July 10, 2020

Columns

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Open Season

Can we reverse the “long march”?

‘After a long time people are finally beginning to wake up to “the long march through the institutions”—the idea that left-wing “progressives” have to

December 23, 2020

Open Season

Black and Asian Britons should not be treated as a bloc

‘People do not vote as a bloc, and ethnic or racial groups—and often individuals within these groups—contain a multitude of political opinions’

December 23, 2020

Open Season

There have always been “woke” students—the problem is their elders

‘The people running these institutions—they’re the people who are actually cancelling the songs, renaming the buildings and withdrawing the paintings’

October 21, 2020

There is particularly fertile ground for mistrust in an era in which fear has become a dominant public perspective.

Open Season

Can a white conservative be trusted?

There is particularly fertile ground for mistrust in an era in which fear has become a dominant public perspective

August 28, 2020

Dispatches

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There was nothing ignoble about Trump's defeat — at least, not initially.

Dispatches

December 23, 2020

President Trump’s final days

"There was nothing ignoble about Trump’s defeat — at least, not initially"

Politics is much like marketing: the clearer the message, the more likely the sale.

Dispatches

August 28, 2020

Biden, Trump and the soul of a nation

Politics is much like marketing: the clearer the message, the more likely the sale. Based on the opening of the (virtually held) Democratic National

Features

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December 23, 2020

Features

A turning point for moderate Islam

In an age of stark ideological cleavages, Muslims are living through a battle of ideas over the meaning of religion in the modern world

The life of Diego Maradona epitomised the working-class soul of Argentinian football and mirrored the country he loved.

December 23, 2020

Features

El pibe de oro — the golden kid

The life of Diego Maradona epitomised the working-class soul of Argentinian football and mirrored the country he loved

We have become reluctant to accept death as an integral part of life.

December 23, 2020

Features

Don’t fear the Reaper

We have become reluctant to accept death as an integral part of life. Perhaps coronavirus will give us a more realistic attitude to mortality

December 23, 2020

Features

The cult on Pennsylvania Avenue

A peculiar organisation is peddling exotic conspiracy theories about Joe Biden’s electoral win — but the Larouchians have long attempted to bend reality