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Other candidates, like Ron DeSantis, are already changing the debate, backed up by an impressive array of think tanks and media projects Read more

I cannot be the only person who notices the asymmetry at work here – the effort to rip apart our own myths and truths while inventing wholly new myths about

It doesn’t matter who you vote for in America — on the matter of illegal migration the results are always the same. To be fair, it is the same in

John Keats, who died tragically with little renown at 25, wrote poignant poems that eventually gave him everlasting life. Read more

I first became aware of Schofield when he was presenting children’s television from the BBC’s ‘broom cupboard’ with Gordon the Gopher. I have not followed the career of either character

One of the great secrets of successful institutions is that people are loyal to institutions that are loyal to them. If that pact gets broken at one end then it

Condemned to ten years in the gulag, the scholar sat in her cell and translated an epic poem—all 16,000 lines—from memory. Read more

Some people seem to make a career of being ashamed (or at least claiming to be ashamed) of their country. Personally I don’t feel it – apart from when I

Ron DeSantis’s entry into the race has made the Republicans interesting. The contrast with their opponents couldn’t be more striking Read more