David Vaiani
David Vaiani’s King and Country: The 1933 Student Debate That Shook the World is out later this year. He tweets at @DavidVaian47732
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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
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
