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Aug 4, 2025 • 22min

Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had

Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
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Jul 29, 2025 • 20min

His Satanic Majesty Retires

A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.
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Jul 28, 2025 • 9min

The Vanishing of Peng Shuai

Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual.
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Jul 28, 2025 • 17min

Why the Islamic Republic Must Fall

As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this. By Armin Navabi.
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Jul 25, 2025 • 50min

The Soldier and the Revolutionary

The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose.
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Jul 24, 2025 • 34min

Too Much Monkey Business

The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.
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Jul 22, 2025 • 13min

Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury

Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.
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Jul 22, 2025 • 7min

Are We Dating the Same Guy?

Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By ⁠Amy Eileen Hamm⁠
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Jul 18, 2025 • 41min

Red Spies and Lies

Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
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Jul 17, 2025 • 21min

Traitors to the Human Mind

As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.

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