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Literary Helpdesk: 2nd (3rd?) Lockdown Edition (revised and extended)
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Remembering Sir Roger Scruton
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The Middle East is more polarised along religious lines than ever before. Yet recent history shows the region can return to the enlightened tolerance it once enjoyed
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