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We all of us express our approval and disapproval of things every day in acts of taste like turning off or turning on.

Facing protests and falling popularity, they are proof that it is wrong to prize empathy in political leaders above everything else

New York business owners are adding guards and plastic covers on goods to avoid empty shelves from shoplifters.

Rishi Sunak is right to get tough on targets. Sacred cows are dangerous things. And few are more sacred than the NHS.

I know the following sentence is going to get me into trouble. Still, there are times when you wonder whether highly feminised people should perform certain jobs.

All the evidence shows that cloth masks do nothing to ward off the virus. Yet our officials seem wedded to their outdated narrative.

Harsanyi uses his book to lay out a number of well-supported claims. Some of the of the ground covered is by now fairly familiar, though always presented with engaging facts and examples.

So long as your standard of living is rising, you can watch and listen to the world’s concerns with a degree of equanimity.

Many people have tried podcasting, but the comic didn’t become the world’s number one by accident

The Prime Minister and the fawning court around him seem to have noticed that he has lost his lustre.

There’s a reason disenchanted liberals won’t switch sides

The chances are still slim. Not least for the reasons that have existed since the Cold War. Which is that nuclear-armed states do not like to go to war with each other.