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My Life as a Victim of High-IQ ADHD
I used to think my inability to get mundane and bureaucratic tasks accomplished came down to being lazy and disorganised, but thanks to a series of…
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Debating Differences
It’s always boring to recount Twitter controversies, so I’ll get this done quickly.
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The Morning Before
Waking up the morning after getting very drunk is a gradual and confusing process.
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A Bizarre Backlash
The shape-shifting scandal over the life and death of Jason Arday continues to seethe in the British media.
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A Dog’s Life
Yesterday, my fiancée and I were taking a bus home, on a beautiful August evening, when we saw a husky wandering alone beside a main road.
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Spying and Lying
Antonia Senior’s book Stalin’s Apostles explores the history of the Cambridge Five — highly educated, well-connected British men — Kim Philby, Guy…
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On Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable
I wasn’t going to comment on the sad death of Rod Liddle because I barely read him.
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More Than You Probably Wanted to Know About Men and Anorexia
I mentioned this week on X that I had suffered from anorexia and got a response from a user who claimed that he had never heard of men being anorexic.
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Arday, Ideology and Academics
A lot has been written about what appears to be plagiarism and fabrications from Cambridge Professor Jason Arday.
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The Sympathetic Case for Restrictionism
Writing about the wave of migrants who flooded into Ceuta this week, the prolifically thought-provoking Rod Dreher writes: “If they were coming with…
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Murder by Proxy
The BBC reports: “Teenage Norwegian ‘hitman’ guilty of UK murder plot”.
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July 2026

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