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Rishi Sunak has thrown away his moral compass after getting hopelessly lost on his quest to retain power (Picture: Toby Melville/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Rwanda is safe. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

UK failing to heed warning about choice between political fairytales and reality Ian Johnston

Van der Merwe's scintillating rugby a reminder of the value of 'migrant workers' Ian Johnston

Charles Darwin is depicted as an ape in this satirical image from the London Sketch Book of 1860 (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The scientific method is humanity's greatest achievement

King Canute-like response won't save us from growing storms of climate change Ian Johnston

Populists like Donald Trump lambast the 'mainstream media' for reporting the truth (Picture: Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Passions: Why I love the mainstream media

Liberal fightback against populism starts with defence of elites and immigration

Michel de Montaigne, seen third from left with Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri, was keen to question perceived wisdom, to the point of seeing life from the viewpoint of his cat (Picture: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)

The past may be a different country but modern voices can still be found

Rishi Sunak's plan to block all asylum claims may lead to hell on Earth Ian Johnston

Ian Johnston discovered he loved swimming, after avoiding it for years, at Dalry Swim Centre in Edinburgh

How I learned to stop hating the 'boiled carrots' of sports and love it instead

Braverman has a point about immigration. But she's wrong about the solution Ian Johnston

A centaur carries off a women in this carving taken from the Parthenon in Athens and currently in the British Museum in London (Picture: Ian Johnston)

Returning Elgin Marbles would help restore the greatest monument to democracy