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November 2015
It has been a truism that intellectuals lean to the Left and sneer at the Right, but no more should this be the case
November 2015
‘From the point of view of anyone seeking safety and comfort the whole business of life is very badly organised’
November 2015
‘Europe must force Iran to rethink its support for Assad, the main cause of Syrian misery and the migration crisis’
October 2015
"Given the massive sales of Thomas Piketty’s Capital, can Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the Labour leadership be that much of a surprise?"
June 2013
‘Temporarily withdrawing from the human rights convention in order to deport Abu Qatada would be absurd’
March 2014
Abortion is a subject which never goes away and the arguments remain fundamental — a woman's right to choose versus a child's right to life, as each side would advance their case. And yet the technical and clinical
November 2015
‘After a long process of unwinding and unfolding, I came out as a Christian advocate of equal marriage. ’
November 2015
‘Can some synthesis between the idealism of the Corbyn camp and the pragmatism of Labour’s moderate wing produce a winning combination?’
May 2015
"The Humboldt Forum is a spectacular idea. But it will take the right intellectual architect to pull it off. We will have to trust Neil MacGregor"
January/February 2011
Life in Birmingham as a vicar’s wife opened our Mole’s eyes to what has become of Britain’s second city
November 2015
‘You cannot measure the success of a city by the number of coffee chains it can support’
November 2015
‘Off we went with our parsley-flecked teeth to see Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy’
November 2015
Don't go to Copenhagen unless you have very high self-esteem: the people are beautiful and the food is world-beating
November 2015
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
November 2015
Might the world's second-ranked player, Hikaru Nakamura, manage to emulate his countryman Bobby Fischer?
November 2015
The pitfalls of addressing the House of Commons while seriously inebriated
April 2014
It gets to the point doesn't it — where you're trying to "do the right thing", whatever that may be. Lead a decent, middle-class life — and yet somehow whatever you do, it's morally wrong. You know? It's
July/August 2015
Despite everything, the BBC is still one of our great cultural forces
July/August 2011
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