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How Brand Scotland conquered America

In his highly entertaining history of alcohol and the British, Empire of Booze, Henry Jeffreys observed how one effect of the Napoleonic Wars was to...

01.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

How Brand Scotland conquered America

In his highly entertaining history of alcohol and the British, Empire of Booze, Henry Jeffreys observed how one effect of the Napoleonic Wars was to...

01.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

What is ‘Q Manivannan’ doing in British politics?

In an age full of nepobaby second-generation politicians posing as ‘outsiders’, new Green Party MSP ‘Q Manivannan’ is the real thing. Indeed,...

28.05.2026 20

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What is ‘Q Manivannan’ doing in British politics?

In an age full of nepobaby second-generation politicians posing as ‘outsiders’, new Green Party MSP ‘Q Manivannan’ is the real thing. Indeed,...

27.05.2026 20

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What Tsarist Russia tells us about anti-Semitism in Britain today

During the autumn of 1888, as London’s East End erupted in panic following the Whitechapel murders, blame was soon cast on a convenient target: the...

01.05.2026 20

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How Hitler came to define Western morality

‘A century ago, the most potent moral figure in Western society was Jesus Christ. Now it is Adolf Hitler. Perhaps we still believe that Jesus is...

20.04.2026 30

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The state completely failed Valdo Calocane’s victims

On June 13, 2023, a mentally ill man named Valdo Calocane went on a rampage in Nottingham, murdering 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates and two...

02.04.2026 20

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Britain’s Green party is playing with fire

A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in the “Green Party” originally referred...

28.02.2026 40

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The Green party are playing with fire in Gorton

A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in the “Green Party” originally referred...

26.02.2026 20

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Bonfire of the Vanities / The martyrdom of Chris Kaba

In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s great satirical look at 1980s New York, a white Wall Street trader accidentally ends up in a hit and...

18.02.2026 30

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A short history of the New York Times being wrong about everything

23.01.2026 50

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Age limits / Keep children out of politics

05.01.2026 30

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Keep children out of politics

04.01.2026 20

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Age limits / Keep children out of politics

02.01.2026 30

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Keep children out of politics

01.01.2026 30

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In a state / Starmerism was always doomed to fail

26.11.2025 30

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A failed war / The case for narcotics licences

09.11.2025 30

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The case for narcotics licences

08.11.2025 20

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Free speech / Lucy Connolly is in prison because of her politics

20.05.2025 20

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Labour’s demographic crisis

30.04.2025 20

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