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Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
Warming is not the only threat
Our response to Covid-19 has shown us that national security depends on more than tanks, planes and climate preparedness
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
A moral case for Universal Basic Income
A neoliberal argument for UBI based on individual freedom and property rights
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month