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Issue: June 2018
Ten more years
The culture of intolerant individualism preaches diversity but practises conformity
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Basically wrong
The arguments for a basic income are as idealistic as they are simplistic. Its proponents are pursuing misguided ideals.
Philip Booth
Counterpoints
Tory home truth
The decline in the proportion of owner-occupiers means a decline in the number of Conservative voters
Harry Phibbs
Counterpoints
Take Tucker’s tip
Disasters happen when the last man who can remember what happened last time has retired. Now is the time for new thinking
Christopher Fildes
Counterpoints
All go for lingo
There's an entrenched myth that learning a second language as a grown-up is a Herculean — or even Sisyphean — task. It isn’t
Patrick West
Counterpoints
Can Theresa May hold the Tories together?
‘Talk of bringing down the government is growing among Tory MPs alarmed by the prospect of a soft Brexit'
Michael Mosbacher
Politics
Signs of the times
‘Someone telling you that you are not oppressed can deal a terrible blow to your self-esteem’
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
Britain’s biggest challenge isn’t Brexit
‘Our biggest political and economic challenge is not Brexit. It is the fact that our growth rate has slowed to a crawl’
John Mills
Guest Speaker
The new McCarthyism
‘By far the worst censors and McCarthyites are the transgender activists and their allies. There are any number of men on the Left who are happy to see women silenced and bullied for not toeing the party line’
Julie Bindel
Open Season
Lightbulb moment
‘How many bureaucrats does it take to change a light bulb — or does it depend on whether they work in Brussels or Westminster?’
Tim Congdon
Marketplace
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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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