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Issue: September 2016
The Nelson Touch
"In her first two months on the bridge, Theresa May has skilfully steered the ship of state away from hazardous Continental rocks and into the open sea"
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
Summer Salvoes
"Theresa May’s safe pair of hands seems a great blessing after the vacuum Cameron and Osborne left us in"
Douglas Murray
The Outsider's Diary
Bad King Wenceslas
"Jean-Claude Juncker is not the first Luxembourger to imagine he can dictate the future of Europe"
David Abulafia
Open Season
Party Crashers
"It’s my Labour Party, Mr Corbyn, and I’ll cry if I want to"
Maureen Lipman
With Prejudice
Friedman’s Fancy
"Friedman’s “helicopter money” was designed as a thought experiment to stimulate the imagination — not the real British economy. He was joking"
Tim Congdon
Marketplace
Do Svidaniya, Olga!
The hearty icons of Soviet womanhood have vanished
Heidi Kingstone
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Jolly Jack
J.B. Priestley was known to the public as as a grumpy old man, but that was just a mask
Marigold Johnson
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Poetry Prospers
The anthology
Hwaet!
proves poetry is alive and thriving at the Ledbury Poetry Festival
Mark Fisher
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Intersectionality
The Black Lives Matter movement recently disrupted traffic in the UK — but to what avail?
Tycho Johnson
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Debunking the EU Referendum Myths
Several major misconceptions about how Brexit came about have taken hold. Here is why they are wrong — and what really happened
Michael Mosbacher and Oliver Wiseman
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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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