01/27/2020 - 12:01am

Should we be allowed to lie about our age? Not all age-based discrimination is bad — sometimes it's necessary

Peter Franklin

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What unites the Nazis and Communists? It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's <i>Life and Fate</i>

Douglas Murray

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Salvini’s plan to smash Italy’s red wall Italy's populist leader appeals to millions battered by EU austerity and globalisation

Nicholas Farrell

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Don’t ask voters how to solve climate change When national survival is at stake, you call in the experts and worry about the electorate’s consent later

Richard Askwith

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The Scottish town that rejected nationalism In East Fife, Scottish nationalism has slowly become more attractive

John Lloyd

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What would you sacrifice for integrity? Terrence Malick's new film interrogates a moral dilemma with pernicious modern relevance

James Mumford

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Why the mummy wars are really class wars Notionally scientific parenting questions are in truth vehicles for class and cultural debates

Mary Harrington

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Rural Cornwall is right to be anxious If the duchy is to survive Brexit, something must be done about its not-so-splendid isolation

Tanya Gold

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How to argue with a racist Adam Rutherford's new book wrestles with the difficult subject of race and science

Giles Fraser

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Everything you know about Europe is wrong British liberals have created a Europe of their imagination, but how closely does it resemble reality?

Ed West

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The inconvenient truth about transwomen Self-identification puts women, children — and trans people themselves — at risk

Debbie Hayton

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Cultural heroes, please stay out of politics The finest minds lose all their nuance when they get political on Twitter

Freddie Sayers