The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
How the police eats its own
Cowardice and ideology have turned the management against the officers
This “police reform” will fix nothing
A new white paper might as well have been left as white paper
The blue chimera
Our alternately toothless and overbearing police forces are Westminster’s creatures
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?