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‘Anglo-Gaullism’ piece for Unherd
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Existential Politics is to go into hibernation for a while
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The Conservative Party as a progressive party
How economic expansion trumps conservation in the Tory world view
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On American (or Anglophone elite) hubris
They keep on mistaking their superior power for superior knowledge
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Mission: make cricket into an EDI bureaucracy
The ‘Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket’ is a classic stitch-up
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What is progressive capitalism?
The elevation of novelty in our economic system makes it inherently progressive
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The seven-year long Rejoin campaign
The unpersoning of Boris Johnson seems to be part of the long game
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The best history of ideas you’ve never heard of
The Western Intellectual Tradition by Jacob Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish
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