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‘Extinction Rebellion has discovered that by mixing up its demands with concern for the environment, it can win support — or at least a passing kind of support — from a much wider band of the population.’
E-scooters are a wretched species to be introduced into the urban ecosystem
DC is the Wild West of e-scooterdom: there are just too many operating here
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The wonderful world of community theater
The woman sitting next to me whispered urgently: ‘I can’t take my eyes off that man’s nipple’
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Where did the term ‘impeach’ come from?
The term was first used in its modern sense for the process of removing errant members of the English House of Lords in the 14th century.
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Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history
The effects on many of its users are permanent. They may give it up, but the damage has been done
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Tacitus, master of ‘government sources’
For the modern journalist, rumor and inside sources, however attractive, often generate only fake news
By Peter Jones
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Asians are doing too well — they must be stopped
The Asian American success story catastrophically undermines the assumptions behind affirmative action
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Trump’s economic nationalism is an effort to save capitalism
America needs to harness capitalism as successfully as China has
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Mass extinction
The only way to tackle Extinction Rebellion is by dissecting its ideology
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Who really invented the word ‘posh’?
People prefer memorable tales, especially those involving acronyms, to the truth
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California is a gigantic asylum
Before the 1960s, the culture of lunacy in California was confined to Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Carmel
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Words matter: we must be more honest about language
When we say politicians should be pilloried, we don’t mean passers-by should throw rocks at them
By Sam Leith
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Who’s listening? Civilized debate is dead
Our society has become perfectly content with a set of unchallenged lies
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Trans rights, voter wrongs
Insisting that men can be women is a sure way to lose an election
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Why are young people so left-wing?
Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice
By Toby Young
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The shallow state
A real Deep State would have stopped Trump winning in the first place
By Paul Wood
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Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020
The Massachusetts senator is a left-wing populist for people who don’t want left-wing populism
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Does Trump have a better idea than endless wars?
Few in Washington acknowledge the scope of the self-inflicted wounds the US has sustained since 9/11
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Pulling US troops out of Syria will prove to be the right decision
Donald Trump, peacemaker?
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