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October 2015
"The ultimate demographic impact on Europe of the present wave of migration is totally unpredictable"
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"
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
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"
October 2015
"If Jeremy Corbyn is not anti-Semitic himself, he is more than happy to consort with those who are"
October 2015
The best places in London to indulge in the subversive joys of smoking
July/August 2015
There is a link between a great Jewish musical and the search for a historic mathematical proof
October 2015
The mysterious phenomenon of aphantasia
October 2015
The wine region in the 18th century was a cornucopia of delights but still recognisable as the Burgundy of 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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