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AI bikini girl

Images And Self-Image

Last week, the Princess of Wales released the latest of her quarterly videos. Lots of slightly soft-focus visuals of HRH walking through the countryside like a House of Bruar model while a slow, serious, pause-filled voiceover gave us her thoughts about winter. Taken with her recent refusal to give details about her clothes, the videos […]

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Shamima Begum in a dinghy

Begum Back in Business? 

Few cases encapsulate the rot at the heart of Britain quite like that of Shamima Begum. On the surface, she should have been a textbook illustration of the virtues of multiculturalism: a second-generation Bangladeshi, raised in the Muslim enclave of Tower Hamlets in East London. In reality, she embodies everything Britain has gotten wrong since

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Keir Starmer as Caligula

Hate And Fear 

You already know many of the Emperor Caligula’s greatest hits. There was making his horse Consul (he didn’t, but it was thought he might). There was the incest with his sisters (no real evidence for this and it was far from unknown in the ancient world – Cleopatra’s parents were almost certainly closely related, possibly

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people wearing multiple masks

We’ve All Got the Flu

They tried to terrify us with Covid-19 and, sad to report, it largely worked. Most of the population cowered under the cosh of the public health experts, stayed indoors, socially distanced, wore masks and got vaccinated. Some people remain convinced that Covid-19 was an existential threat and that, had it not been for the one-way

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