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Act smart

Are you happy with your wage?

If I didn’t do it ... a coda

If I didn’t do it, someone would

Falling stars

How long can you keep a fresh turkey?

The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson

Set fire to the rain

Ultimate dinner parties

Let us break bread together on our knees / Rompons le pain ensemble à genoux

La sagesse supplantée par la ruse

Flight or resignation

Culture wars? What about war culture?

Me and you and a dog named Lou-Lou

Scooting through Rome used to be fun

Distractions

Risky business

From Amazon to the Amazon

Marry someone uglier than you

Ukraine: what is peace worth?

Thou shalt clap

Justin Welby: babies and bathwater

Ukraine: obviously so

Genuine potential

On the American vice-presidency

Belief in Donald Trump is like belief in the afterlife

Criminal justice must be a pancake, not a pie

On conscientious objection

For what I believe in

For sale: a government. Who will open the bidding?

Beautiful things

Morality, fairness, coercion and the law

Traditional Texas

On space; on roads

Checks and imbalances: I just do my job

Suck it and see - Suce-le et tu verras

It will always be you, only you

What is a rich man?

Milton’s not caused by fossil fuels, says the Guv

“The end of the world as we know it.”

Germans are up in arms

The funniest silences at the seaside

A year on

The eve of destruction

Old schoolmasters, old truths

Belief

The way junior football is funded in Australia is why the world should be communist

Shifts to the right

Forever hold your peace

American dreams

Men of conscience are doomed to failure

Understanding More

Grenfell Tower’s legal uncertainties

Homecoming queens

Kamala’s refusal

Brand new state

“Never again”: can you explain what that means?

This is Abs

They do it their way

Per Chiara

The costly freedom of the open road

On protest | A proposito di protesta

Off to the south

Reaching for the sky

Harmony

Hm. How to get to Toulouse?

Bullying in the workplace

At Close Range

How to live in peace with brutal reality

The darkest hour is just before dawn

Does slavery confer on Blacks the same immunity that the Holocaust confers on Jews?

No tax without representation

Speed away to Nazareth

Index (updated 2024-10-13)

I will eat my hat

Con los pobres de la tierra

There’s only one solitary star, and one Rudi Völler

In duplicity we trust

Ineffable dreams

Caravanserai

On power

So. What do you call?

Why bother?

Who’s a dumbass?

Levachan

The Time Machine

Do as we say, not as we do

Munich’s freedom

Polls. Think about it.

Is 85 million a fair price for a just war?

Contained wilderness

Your country needs ...

Beware of children

When you’re in a hole, stop digging

The words of the prophets are whispered

Belgium’s great democratic tradition (België haar grootse democratische traditie)

Major Harrison Mann

Rape is about power, not sex

Duly assured: free lunch on Sunday

On the common law and its relationship to morality

Hands as cold as ice

Facing truth (Der Wahrheit ins Auge sehen)

A court case of recent date reminds me of Aileen Wuornos

Political correctness isn’t for today’s youth

Deny, deny, deny

Where the face is well hidden

The problem with Mrs Vennells

Patriot games

Is confirmation bias the only way of finding truth?

The New Caledonian issue is an issue of empire

Poop, poop-a-doop

“Zero” tolerance

Paltry wages, Kazakhstan and Yunnan

Nineteen

Minorities are in their own majority

Moral authority

So, how are you doing? Missing you?

Is The Godfather realistic?

The Jewish state calls on decent people

Are you one of us?

I am you

Why

Law enforcement on campus

East is east, and West is west

Oh, to be in Mali, now that spring is here!

The moral imperative of a trumpet

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width

Onward, Christian soldiers

How do you know the Bible tells you the truth?

Take-off, glideslope and landing

Two rationales for atonement

Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun

Wasp control

The Birkenhead Drill

Wherefore art thou white?

I think, therefore that’s what I am | Je pense, donc c’est ce que je suis

Teenage mutant ninja slave

Diddely-doddelies

Haiti: a communist state modelled on Liechtenstein?

Challenging preconceptions

Easter isn’t just about Jesus

The burdens and benefits of music streaming

If you don’t know where it is, send in the marines

Fish, bananas, old pyjamas

Everything I do

If courts could level judgment that quickly, there’d be no backlog in the judicial system

Is The Godfather a feel-good movie?

11M

I wish this fekkin’ night was over

Free subscriptions versus a paywall

Relax, don’t bend it, like a good girl should

Armenia’s playing dead

Hold tight

Freedom or death

Ermenonville, Sunday 3 March 1974

6 million

Why did he do it?

Lee Anderson: London is under Muslim control

Liberté, égalité, fraternité: Haiti needs to live up to its motto

The Herero/Nama genocide

Toastmasters and competent leadership

Would I lie to you?

Why has the American Republican party become an enemy of democracy?

Something in common

Standing your ground

When in Jerusalem, do as the Romans do

Good guys and bad guys

They defy the law and the law is barely fighting back

Now wash your hands

Involuntary bristling

War’s conscientious objectives and its conscientious objectors

Israel is fighting this war for all free-thinking people

Leave a little of your money behind wherever you go

Mr Trump is not a drag

Billy, don’t be a fool with your life

An impoverished retirement or one that will never happen at all

The threshold of what is familiar

The rise of the right

Better or worse?

A homeland for homos? Ludicrous!

Gorgias the Nihilist

Suing ain’t getting

We can make love, not war

Prep for life

The power of love

They, the people

Drive carefully, come back soon

D’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow?

My first 217 suicides

A drop in the ocean ... of blood

High on a hill stands a lonely goatherd

On “Torch Song Trilogy”

Mr Trump is appealing

The lesser of two evils

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine

Come on, get off

Happy New Armageddon