Don’t call it “shocking”
The attack on a Manchester synagogue was appalling but not surprising
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a bad joke
Comedians should not agree not to insult the powerful
“Digital ID” proves that the government has run out of ideas
It simply will not fix the issue it claims it will fix
We are all extremely online now
Hand-wringing about the “extremely online right” is futile and hypocritical
Farewell to a cricket legend
Harold “Dickie” Bird lived with infectious enthusiasm
The life and times of a drug smuggler
On the plane, on the boat, on the ground
How could Starmer be so stupid?
The Mandelson appointment illuminates Number 10’s delusional sense of self
Will America choose violence?
Americans are in for even darker times if bombs and bullets replace words
Don’t panic about Putin
Potential Russian provocation should make us determined but not hysterical
Viral outrages
Why has a random act of murder captured the attention of the internet?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent