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The fear of spheres
Analysis of Donald Trump and American world power still suffers from conceptual confusion
Scotland is veering towards abortion extremism
Sex-selective abortion is barbaric, not progressive
ICE, ICE, baby
British right-wingers must learn the lessons of the Trump administration’s controversial deportation policies
Is Mark Carney a Straussian?
The rules-based order might have been based on fiction but fiction is essential in politics
An approved Chinese embassy is the least of our worries
Britain has yet to appreciate the scale of the challenge that China poses
Why the Lords can vote against assisted dying
It is right and proper for the Lords to challenge deeply problematic legislation
The Supreme Court must protect women’s sports
Two landmark cases could change international attitudes towards sex and gender
The blue chimera
Our alternately toothless and overbearing police forces are Westminster’s creatures
Britain must stop subsidising the Ugandan regime
We are propping up a brutal dictator
Enter stage right?
Should we celebrate a new theatrical prize for anti-woke plays?
The Yookay against reality
Cousin marriage, cultural appeasement and wilful blindness
The mistakes of Manchesterism
Andy Burnham is being unrealistic about growth
Crime and Christianity
Dorothy L. Sayers may not have been the most assiduous warden, but she served her church in the best way she could
Coalhenge: Britain’s colossal wonders
The awe-inspiring cooling towers of our pensioned-off power stations should be preserved as monuments
Simon Raven
A controversial writer who could produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous
Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along
An installation mimicking graffiti on the pillars of Canterbury Cathedral has caused an outcry
The frosty frontier
Annexing Canada is merely the latest salvo in America’s long history of hostility towards its northern neighbour
Realism versus Restraint
Washington’s foreign policy arises from two impulses often in conflict with each other
King-sized ambition
The kind of revisionism to be expected from a northern bore
Christmas at the crossroads
We must pull ourselves out of our current malaise if we are to say we can live, and live well
Hardy Perennial
James Milner will break Gareth Barry’s record, and no one better deserving
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
Losing Truman
This ghost trail is filled with false starts and made-up assertions, but it ultimately leads us nowhere
How did Britain get rich?
Quests for profit, control and transformation were scarcely specific to Britain
Day after day
It is easy to lose sight of art amid personal narratives
Adulterating Amadeus
A new series does an injustice to Mozart, Shaffer, Forman and TV in general
The art of fine dining
Mount Street’s food would be better without the art on the side
Trying and flailing
How, exactly, are we meant to avoid each other this Christmas?
Having a rough time
If hunting is about communing with nature, rough shooting is a superior medium
The wonder of you
This party season one can very much sport what one wore last Yule