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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place