Tim Stanley

Return of the fairy-hunters

An eccentric English tradition acquires some new academic firepower

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Tim Stanley
Tim Stanley is a leader writer at the Daily Telegraph and a contributing editor at the Catholic Herald. Tim Stanley’s Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging and the Future of the West is out now.

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