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The Beltane Fire Society is a reminder of Scotland's pagan past. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

August 11, 2020

Why they burn witches in Scotland Where the Highlands meet the Lowlands, Christianity both assimilated and clashed with paganism

How ID cards could set us free Once they were seen as a threat to civil liberties, now they might preserve them

Monday

10.08

What we can learn from the Swedish paradox There's nothing libertarian about this country. So why the laissez-faire response to Covid-19?

Don’t call Abingdon ordinary It has been a place of innovation ever since Æthelwold marked out his millstream

Could a comedian topple Macron? The French President is anxious that a charismatic non-politician will mess up his reelection strategy

Friday

07.08

Nicola Sturgeon’s canny doom-mongering The SNP has taken advantage of coronavirus to further its nationalist cause — and all Britons will pay the price

Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative Anyone who teaches British kids about imperialism must be strong enough to cite all perspectives

Why Britain needs a peasants’ revolt To become more self-sufficient, we must listen to William Cobbett and his dream of a 'Brave Old World'

John Lewis-Stempel

Thursday

06.08

The irresistible rise of the civilisation-state Western liberalism has no answer to assertive powers that take pride in their cultural roots

The drawbacks of Japan’s cult of peace 75 years after the atomic bomb, it may be time for the nation to outgrow pacifism

Why Stamford said no to modernity The Lincolnshire town may be stuck in the past — but is that really such a bad thing?

Mary Harrington

The neoliberal revolution within the Church The ancient institution has been asset-stripped by an expanding bureaucracy of management-speak types