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Unfortunately, it can no longer be taken as a given that people find graffiti unacceptable, writes @amwilson_opera

Peers are the last hope for opponents of Assisted Suicide, they should knock the bill flat, writes @BrexitStewart

Kyiv’s inspiring men and women are very much still in the fight and more than deserving of our support. They need more, argues @militaryhistori

RT @WalkerMarcus: Papped at the pub

Just as only Nixon could have gone to China, after all, maybe only Labour could have trimmed the welfare state. Sadly it wasn’t to be, writes @kirtlenus

No leader of the opposition has had as daunting a task, but her confidence is growing by the week, writes @DanBJohnson — Indeed, the Prime Minister has stopped even pretending to answer her questions

RT @HenryGJeffreys: "it appears that Unbound’s business model didn’t work from the very beginning. This flaw was papered over by continuall….

Morrissey’s politics should not mean we cannot accept that he still has flair, says @jmc_fire

Personally, I don’t feel welcome in any shop, library, hospital ward or garden centre that is not festooned with Pride flags, writes @TitaniaMcGrath

“Just how many of these ideological pratfalls seem to involve antisemitism on the BBC itself?” — @mrmaclaine says the BBC has a racism problem

RT @TheCriticBooks: “A succession of energetic oddballs asked themselves if the limits of the possible had really been reached” — @richarda….

RT @DavidScullion: Just as only Nixon could have gone to China, after all, maybe only Labour could have trimmed the welfare state. Sadly it….

“Behind the scenes, things were falling apart. A former employee said ‘it got to a stage where I could not recommend Unbound to my friends’.” — @HenryGJeffreys on the woeful conduct of an unconventional publisher

“So commanding was Alfred Brendel in Schubert’s piano music that other pianists complain they can’t get him out of their fingers” — @NLebrecht on the man who has come closest to the master

My murder of the month is Diane Jeffrey’s The Other Couple, writes Jeremy Black. If you know the side roads east of Croyde, you will know their sharp corners and hidden results, and the fatal accident that launches this novel

Mario Vargas Llosa was a sane and sensitive cartographer of power, writes James Stevens Curl

RT @JeanHatchet: “I’d rather have a chancellor who cried a bit, than a Prime Minister who doesn’t know which sex has a cervix” … what a rub….

British soldiers fighting the American renegades were defending a constitutional order which still defines the United Kingdom and Canada, argues @cath_cov

Drones are causing panic as it is too soon for the mists to clear and understand the full range of their capabilities and drawbacks, writes @militaryhistori