POLITICS
October 2013
David Runciman’s history of democracy occasionally succumbs to a Tocquevillian penchant for paradox, but his argument is brilliantly and convincingly delivered
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September 2013
A decade ago I tentatively questioned the benefits of mass immigration and got slated for it. But things have moved on
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September 2013
People want homes, not the “housing units” offered by tower blocks, yet planners continue to sanction these unloved monstrosities
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July/August 2013
When democratic leftists embrace illiberal ideologies, they normalise the fascism of the European New Right
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