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Mary Harrington
Why Gen Z prefers dogs to babies

31 May / 6 mins

Why the nation state failed

24 May / 7 mins

The failure of lockdown localism

10 May / 7 mins

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Tom McTague
Britain can thrive as a vassal state

08 Jun / 4 mins

Keir Starmer the Conservative

25 May / 5 mins

Do national conservatives trust the people?

17 May / 5 mins

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Kathleen Stock
The gender wars are not a gift to the Right

07 Jun / 7 mins

The Oxford kids are alright

01 Jun / 7 mins

Kylie Minogue’s glorious artifice

26 May / 6 mins

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Aris Roussinos
Is anyone at home in Northern Ireland?

05 Jun / 9 mins

The Arab Spring exposed America’s weakness

31 May / 8 mins

Boomer Europe is dying

23 May / 8 mins

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Kat Rosenfield
The Little Mermaid is Disney propaganda

05 Jun / 6 mins

What kind of woman rides the New York subway?

11 May / 7 mins

The fatal attraction of victimising women

03 May / 6 mins

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Biden’s false border victory

18 May / 4 mins

The year the West erased women

27 Dec / 4 mins

Can Suella Braverman take back control?

03 Nov / 4 mins

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David Patrikarakos
The plan behind Ukraine’s counteroffensive

09 Jun / 5 mins

Martin Amis knew the horror of words

22 May / 5 mins

Can TV soaps get Erdoğan re-elected?

12 May / 5 mins

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Terry Eagleton
The liberal complacency of Martin Amis

23 May / 5 mins

Why doesn’t King Charles like me?

04 May / 6 mins

Ireland is a Freudian dream

05 Apr / 6 mins

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Julie Bindel
‘I was hounded out of Oxfam over JK Rowling’

06 Jun / 7 mins

‘I will never call my rapist father a woman’

30 May / 6 mins

Why is Canada betraying women?

17 May / 4 mins

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Oliver Bateman
Why Ron DeSantis can’t meme

01 Jun / 6 mins

The political dynasty America needs

26 May / 5 mins

The death of the momblogger

19 May / 6 mins

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Freddie Sayers
Was New Atheism a mistake?

07 Jun / 12 mins

Ukrainian MP: why victory is the only option

01 Jun / 15 mins

Edward Blum: My battle against affirmative action

29 May / 8 mins

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Paul Kingsnorth
Is there anything left to conserve?

22 May / 10 mins

We must become barbarians

27 Mar / 10 mins

Who will stand against Progress?

27 Feb / 9 mins

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Tanya Gold
The many delusions of Roger Waters

09 Jun / 5 mins

Steven Spielberg’s childish fantasy

10 Mar / 6 mins

What if King Charles were your landlord?

24 Jan / 7 mins

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Giles Fraser
Restorative justice is a gift to bullies

15 May / 5 mins

The Dalai Lama’s greatest failure

13 Apr / 5 mins

Justin Welby can’t read the room

21 Mar / 6 mins

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Dorian Lynskey
Nick Cave’s divine rebirth

22 Dec / 6 mins

Why we can’t let Britpop die

24 Nov / 7 mins

Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man?

10 Nov / 7 mins

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Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My generation wanted to be offended’

04 Feb / 15 mins

Quentin Tarantino meets Bret Easton Ellis

01 Nov / 11 mins

How Hollywood destroyed Michael Cimino

19 Mar / 16 mins

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Mary Gaitskill
The year of the femcel

28 Dec / 10 mins

All the populist’s men

21 Dec / 7 mins

The year of the femcel

31 Oct / 10 mins

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David Mamet
The naked persecution of Donald Trump

05 Apr / 3 mins

The hidden desire of Tennessee Williams

02 Dec / 5 mins

Race is a delusion

20 Aug / 6 mins

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Matthew Crawford
The corruption of California

04 Mar / 8 mins

Can gratitude save humanity?

14 Jan / 13 mins

Covid was liberalism’s endgame

30 Dec / 12 mins

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Helen Thompson
Great Expectations has violated Dickens

31 Mar / 5 mins

Black gold fuelled the Iraq War

13 Mar / 7 mins

Our Queen’s sacrifice

26 Dec / 5 mins

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Freddie deBoer
Can you escape obesity?

02 May / 8 mins

Don’t blame SATs for American inequality

29 Dec / 6 mins

The grubby truth about mental health memoirs

22 Oct / 8 mins

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Michel Houellebecq
The books that made me

18 Apr / 4 mins

The narcissistic fall of France

31 Dec / 5 mins

The narcissistic fall of France

08 Jun / 5 mins

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Jacob Furedi
Boston and the tragedy of Brexitland

31 Jan / 7 mins

Inside Wakefield’s corrupt election

16 Jun / 7 mins

The betrayal of Ireland’s borderlands

23 May / 8 mins

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Nicholas Harris
How landlords became monsters

07 Jun / 6 mins

Why Gen Z loves Seinfeld

15 May / 5 mins

The strange death of Jeremy Clarkson’s England

19 Jan / 5 mins

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Alwyn Turner
Alastair Campbell won’t stop spinning

11 May / 7 mins

How Thatcher lost her culture war

13 Apr / 7 mins

The music-hall depravity of British politics

22 Mar / 8 mins

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Lionel Shriver
Is trans the new anorexia?

27 Apr / 6 mins

Lionel Shriver: ‘I benefited from wokeness’

17 Mar / 17 mins

Western society is built on stigma

07 Feb / 9 mins

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Justin E. H. Smith
Poetry has lost its violence

01 Jun / 10 mins

The philistine war on AI art

10 Jan / 8 mins

The philosophy of Count Dracula

21 Sep / 8 mins

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