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01The Snowman and the sacrifices of Christmas
“Nothing else has been quite as effective for introducing children to grief.” On Raymond Briggs, childhood and British cultural memory.
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02Satan's sedition
Liberty, licence and Milton's allegory for Oliver Cromwell.
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03The new Stalinism?
On the shifting, more centralised tactics of the contemporary far left.
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04Reform has the real ‘Shadow Cabinet’
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd.
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05The contested legacy of Rocky Horror
With Charlie Bentley-Astor — interpreting a film that is more than a camp classic.
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06Jordan Peterson and the condescension of Times columnists
On a particular tone of British commentary, and what it conceals.
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07The Strange World of German Public Broadcasting
On Deutsche Welle, Anglophone presenters and the curious cosmopolitanism of state media.
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