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Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester
Queen of Kitsch
Frida Kahlo: Her brand has quickly spread from cult to cliché
You’ll grow tired of the Brexiting
Maybe Theresa won after all?
Who really got Brexit done?
British sovereignty has been restored – thanks to ERG obstinacy and Keir Starmer’s epic miscalculation
The completion of a revolution
A brief history of how the ERG got Britain to the point it left the EU
Unravelling the myth of George Soros
Emily Tamkin’s ‘The Influence of Soros’ is a lucid, subtle and fair-minded attempt to grapple with a tremendously complex legacy
Is Foucault responsible for identity politics?
The pseudo-Foucault distorts Foucauldian doctrine not in pursuit of truth, but as a strategy of power
The BBC, a class apart
Michael Collins says the corporation is fighting the wrong war, as usual
Unfixing Parliament
The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic
Mystery of the clicking keyboard
Out of the Ether is an excellent primer on Ethereum, but the general reader might find the minutiae a bit much
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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
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith