My local café is the centre of the community – but inflation is killing it
Once a neighbourhood dies, it is lost forever.
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Our public realm is being lost to private avarice
A freely available space where you can work, rest and pee – is that too much to ask?
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From the NS archive: Sex wars
19 October 1929: Our newspapers are full of sex wars, sex repressions, sex this and sex that.
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Liberals should lament the breakdown of the family
It’s not conservative to want better outcomes for your children.
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What’s behind a successful academic hoax?
The competitive nature of academia produces a tendency to group-think, which hoaxers exploit.
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Leader: In defence of the open society
A healthy liberal democracy must guarantee freedom of expression; it must not guarantee freedom from offence.
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From the NS archive: New Woman
2 October 1964: Anti-domestic, anti-romantic and rather anti-men: there is an outburst of programmes on women in society.
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How politics became the chosen hobby of retirees
The politicisation of the young has been widely discussed, but it is the politicisation of the old that has been…
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