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The idealisation of everyday life
Natascha Engel delves into Marc Stears’s new book, and asks: is there anything in here that will help us rebuild the Red Wall without losing our big city majorities?
Shock of the new
People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse
Trump’s Arendt and Arendt’s Trump
What would the German-born American political theorist Hannah Arendt make of Donald Trump if she were alive today?
Why are poor people so much nicer than rich people?
It’s a broad generalisation – but the author can only go off his extensive experiences bouncing between the developing and developed worlds
Alexander Tchaikovsky: Quarantine Symphony (Toccata Classics)
Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Quarantine Symphony triggers a subtle, wordless response to the things we are experiencing
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
Letter from Washington: Biden’s biggest problem
Immigration is a fraught issue for the president
The Government’s NIP options
Government discussions on the Northern Ireland Protocol have resolved into three options
Why is atheism no longer cool?
How the New Atheists failed to make God go away
Are knitted jumpers racist?
Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear