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September 2015
Like the Gadarene swine, the Left are hurtling toward destruction
September 2015
"Jeremy Corbyn is a polite, decent and evidently sincere man encumbered by lunatic beliefs. On BBC Question Time he attributed the beach massacre in Tunisia to 'austerity'"
September 2015
"The nuclear agreement is the best deal that Iran could have hoped for"
September 2015
"Will Liam Halligan eat humble pie and admit he was wrong about quantitative easing and inflation?"
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
September 2015
"We should never trust the government — any government — to look after us in old age"
June 2015
‘After 2010, the Liberal Democrats got steadily stronger on foreign policy, a field in which their polyglot leader was visibly comfortable’
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
September 2015
"In ways that were unforeseeable at her accession, the Queen’s symbolic unifying function is becoming more important as Britain faces social and economic division"
September 2015
"I kept calling the flock a herd, which justifiably annoyed the rather elegant lady farmer I was chatting up"
September 2015
Savouring wild Croatian delicacies on a Mediterranean desert island
July/August 2015
There is a link between a great Jewish musical and the search for a historic mathematical proof
September 2015
A lesser-known Cold War chess clash which left Bobby Fischer the worse for wear
September 2015
Why doesn't the fabled Italian wine praised by Petrarch pass muster today?
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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