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April 2016
"For eight years, Standpoint has tried to offer terra firma from which to observe our unfolding planetary drama"
April 2016
"Our decent desire to be polite, combined with our indecent concessions to fear, make reform of Islam less likely"
April 2016
"Far from being the harbinger of a more transparent and law-abiding Iran, the Zanjani trial is just an attempt to settle scores"
April 2016
"There may be valid arguments against Brexit, but the leap-in-the-dark claim by Cameron & Co is not one of them"
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
April 2016
"Punk’s politics began in creativity and generalised disgust, but ended in stupidity and fascism"
January/February 2016
"Whenever I crop up in someone’s reminiscences, I find their memory irritatingly fallible"
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’
April 2016
"Should I be grateful for the great Jewish characters I’ve played — or sad that in a 50-year career I’ve rarely played a “classic” role?"
April 2016
A trip to the countryside to nibble nettle-tops
April 2016
An Indian genius had little formal education but his findings astounded Cambridge mathematicians
April 2016
Tigran Petrosian's prophylactic prowess
April 2016
Why Baudelaire preferred the healing effects of wine to the despondency of hashish
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
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