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THE BATTLE FOR THE NATIONAL TRUST
POISONED BY ASPIC
The organisation remains much loved and relatively uncowed by the culture wars. But it is being strangled by patronising conformity and needs to re-imagine its role
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Wrong turn on rights
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Casting calls
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SHARE and SHARE alike
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BRITAIN’S DOOMED DREAM OF SPLENDID ISOLATION
As it struggles to re-invent itself, the UK has shown a cavalier disregard towards France. The former French ambassador to London warns that Boris Johnson will eventually have to think again
GENDER WARS
A lawyer and philosopher on opposite sides of the debate about trans and women’s rights respond to seven propositions—ranging from single-sex spaces to puberty blockers for children
The TOPPLING of an editor
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March of the PHALLOCRACY
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The ecstasy of SANCTIMONY
The old order of “decent discourse” is dying . But we still need the antiquated virtue of tolerance. Fintan O’Toole looks at the warriors who want to make cancel culture a blood sport
Ostracised, disinvited, rescinded. Examples and responses
Cast out Kate Clanchy speaks of the unbearable
GEN Z, EXPLAINED
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To Zoom or not to Zoom
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Two hundred years after his birth, Dostoyevsky’s powerful dramas of good contending with evil still reverberate in our own turbulent times
A hunger for love and thought
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Complex persecution
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Old, grey—and just getting started
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Squaring the ageing circle
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A future fit for longer living
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Doing away with age-old myths
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Too much paper work
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Social care Remembering what’s important
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