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The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Smotherland
Millennials’ misplaced parental instincts are being inflicted on society
What’s the point of grades?
We need to rethink exam results as indicators of personal achievement
“Reframe your trauma”
Rape survivors are not “bigots” for wanting female-only spaces
The giant with terra cotta feet
As July marked the one hundredth anniversary of the CCP, Alex Story examines its performance over the past fifty years
Why we need a Rashford tax
Virtue-signalling companies should put their money where their mouths are
There’s more to the Chris Chan case
How this story is bigger than “trans activist does another awful thing”
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
The terrible south
Claudia Savage-Gore crosses town to go the extra mile for Hector
The Kink Kontroversy
Wiltshire Police are flying the flag for paedophilia — literally
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under