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“Watch me take a knife to your throat”
The erosion of academic freedom at LSE has culminated in threats of physical violence
Letter from Washington: Andrew Cuomo and the shamelessness epidemic
If only the New York governor felt a little shame
Death comes for the church building
The Church of England abandons historic buildings – can they have an afterlife?
Utopian dreams and totalitarian nightmares
Identity politics follow the same logic as racism and homophobia
Angels, demons and videotape
What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism
Conflict of interest
Nigel Boardman’s inquiry into the Greensill Affair squanders the opportunity for real reform
His and Her Taxis
Female-only drivers are an obvious safety feature that has yet to be implemented
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
The vindication of Paul Embery
The judgement will go down as one of the great working-class victories of our time
The Falklands War
How important was it that Britain won?
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
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
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
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato