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‘We need to talk about why the internet is falling in love with Jacob Rees-Mogg, because it’s not OK,’ warns…

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Be fair. Theresa May’s plan actually half-worked. No, there was a plan. I know the consensus now seems to be…

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Having a nigger in the woodpile and a skeleton in the closet are closely related problems, although subtly different. In…

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Technical education Sir: I am grateful to Robert Tombs for highlighting the baleful use of ‘declinism’ as part of the…

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The joy of Sixtus Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and his wife announced the birth of their sixth child, a son…

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Sir Trevor Nunn is directing a play called ‘Dessert’. It seems to be a virtue-signalling riff on the evil of…

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It has been an unqualified delight, even if it is mildly absurd: I have been chairing the judges for this…

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Home In her first big speech since the general election, Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said: ‘I say to the…

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For the title of world’s most benighted city, Mosul takes some beating. Liberated from Saddam Hussein by US forces in…

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