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Issue: December 2017 / January 2018
An appeal
Daniel Johnson
Counterpoints
Pure filth
When it comes to walking, be independent and indefatigable, like Jane Austen's heroines — and Jane Austen herself
Laura Freeman
Counterpoints
Tunnel vision
The original designs of the Thames Tunnel were auctioned at Bonhams in London for £200,000 in November
Marina Gerner
Counterpoints
End of the affair
Hilary Spurling's biography of Anthony Powell contains a surprising revelation: that Powell's wife had an affair during the Second World War
Robert Low
Counterpoints
Brexit and Balfour
'We need a national debate about the kind of country we now hope to be; and we need it now.'
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Halfway to wisdom
‘Did anyone anywhere predict that Harvey Weinstein would bring down the British
Defence Secretary? Yet people still confidently pronounce on life after Brexit’
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
The messy methods of macroeconomics
‘Economists’ assertion of professional status is spurious because of the utter shambles that is macroeconomics’
Tim Congdon
Marketplace
Collectivised clicks
‘As Silicon Valley comes to Washington, the pattern of 21st-century journalism is emerging’
Dominic Green
Open Season
Could Corbyn get the keys to No. 10?
‘The next election is due in May 2022. Does Jeremy Corbyn have any chance of becoming Prime Minister before then?’
Michael Mosbacher
Politics
Sex, politics and the new blasphemy
Westminster is scandalised by sexual harassment that would once have been treated as a joke. But does the nation take it quite so seriously?
Andrew Gimson
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
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