The rites of Spring
The pandemic’s chief fact checker is failing to grasp the realities of the post-covid era
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Against the consultancy blob
Why are we still listening to the behavioural insights team?
The last conversation
The problem with podcasts
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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
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation