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Laurence Fox’s new role
Will the outspoken actor succeed in ridding the police of their rainbow flags?
Why does Ofcom pander to the lunatic fringes of transgender activism?
Rather than reflecting the opinions of the people, under Ofcom’s new code televised media risks becoming a tool to enforce conformity
Despatch from St Moritz
Why are the international super-rich insufficiently grateful to the British?
A catch that feeds the soul
Heaven is the Outer-Hebrides – with the electric jolt of the sea trout on the line
More sad than naughty
A BDSM book by a group keen to challenge gender norms is oddly conventional
What Boris Johnson told the ’22
Digs at Nicola Sturgeon and an end to lockdown “before the tulip season is over”
Optimism ain’t what it used to be
Hopeless is as hopeless does
Is British democracy poised to become a more equal fight?
Will equal sized constituencies redraw the electoral battle map?
A salute to our oldest ally
There’s far more to Portugal than its reputation as one of Europe’s economic basket cases
Remembering Khamis Abulafia: broadcaster, baker, peacemaker
As the remnants of Israel’s left implode and the hard-right strengthens further, Israel needs voices like Khamis’s more than ever
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
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
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
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