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Breaking the class ceiling
Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…
New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…
Creative destruction
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Posh performance
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Where hope takes root
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Past futures
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Might is not right
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Passing as upper class
Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…
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Mumbo Jumbo
Political discourse has become a cauldron of curses, conspiracies and clickbait, where inflammatory rhetoric can manifest into deadly reality
Silence of the lambs
The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor
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Kate Mosse
The former burlesque dancer discusses her fictionalised memoir of Soho life in Performance, the exhilarating freedom of club nights in her youth and “hatching” from an egg on stage
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