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The summer houses of the Stockholm archipelago offer a vision of the Good Life, Swedish style

10 Aug 2020 - 1:11am

What we can learn from the Swedish paradox There's nothing libertarian about this country. So why the laissez-faire response to Covid-19?

Don’t call Abingdon ordinary It has been a place of innovation ever since Æthelwold marked out his millstream

Could a comedian topple Macron? The French President is anxious that a charismatic non-politician will mess up his reelection strategy

Friday

07.08

Nicola Sturgeon’s canny doom-mongering The SNP has taken advantage of coronavirus to further its nationalist cause — and all Britons will pay the price

Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative Anyone who teaches British kids about imperialism must be strong enough to cite all perspectives

Why Britain needs a peasants’ revolt To become more self-sufficient, we must listen to William Cobbett and his dream of a 'Brave Old World'

John Lewis-Stempel

Thursday

06.08

The irresistible rise of the civilisation-state Western liberalism has no answer to assertive powers that take pride in their cultural roots

The drawbacks of Japan’s cult of peace 75 years after the atomic bomb, it may be time for the nation to outgrow pacifism

Why Stamford said no to modernity The Lincolnshire town may be stuck in the past — but is that really such a bad thing?

Mary Harrington

The neoliberal revolution within the Church The ancient institution has been asset-stripped by an expanding bureaucracy of management-speak types

Wednesday

05.08

‘Mrs America’, and where feminism failed The TV drama shows just how successful the campaign against female emancipation has been

Let them eat prawn cocktail crisps Boris Johnson used to scoff at the puritans who wanted to curb our God-given appetites. Now he's become one of them