Sexting has taken the place of sex
By Zoe Strimpel
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We aren’t living in Hef’s cultured Playboy world anymore; if anything, we are living in Hustler’s nightmare
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The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid I have called the crybully
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America’s young elite is turning against free love
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Being home more is a blessing for my family, but I really miss being with my entire DC team
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I’m here to tell you that the American media is a disaster
By Jesse Singal
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I stand by the article I wrote in the April issue of The Spectator about ‘vinfluencers’ and the social-media celebrities who use their looks to sell wine
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It’s unfashionable to worry about inflation. It’s also right
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The worldview from which Dillon derives much of his comedy is apocalyptic: civilization on the brink
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Stewart became a prominent progressive voice, a pundit screaming into the void
By Matt Purple
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It is impossible to get any Congressional Republican to say publicly that Biden won fairly
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‘This has been a horrible pandemic, but it is not the big one’
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It is one thing to compete with China. But the minute we start copying them, we are on the path to perdition
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Books + Arts
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn reviewed
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No matter his personal woes, Evans almost always vouchsafed his listeners something not merely to dig but to cherish
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Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology by Frances Larson reviewed
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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett reviewed
By Ian Thomson
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Bad politics often make good art. That’s especially true when the art is tasked with making sense of political senselessness
By James Panero
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Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain by Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones reviewed
By Simon Heffer
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Hawkwind played notes from underground, but they had a global influence
By D.J. Taylor
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The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin reviewed
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Life
The mural painted on my envisioned Thelonious Monk Alley would feature images of little Thelonious in his fireman’s cap, surrounded by firemen, and the adult Thelonious at the piano
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Its beautiful Hispanic architectural marvels are gradually being torn down
By Taki
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As we emerge from the pandemic, I’m going long on Dorpers
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Progressives claim to abhor the concept of class, yet no group in this country is as conscious of it as they are
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Ictus can as easily be applied to the stress on a syllable in poetry
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Italians, normally so keen to hug and kiss each other, have been forced into social distancing, and it has given the wine windows a new lease of life
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Whereas the older nurse was effortlessly capable of subjectivity, objectivity, sympathy and imagination, the younger woman was limited to the first category only
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It rapidly becomes clear that farming is no joyride
By Peter Jones
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Place
Beware: Keem Bay is beguiling
By Dea Birkett
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Food and Drink
You name it, you can — and for some reason people always do — put onion in it
By Jane Stannus
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If the British public are not introduced to good sandwiches, they will not know what’s possible
By Hannah Moore
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It’s the question every decaf critic asks: why drink coffee with no kick?
By Kate Andrews
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