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Can Christopher Nolan save the cinema-going experience?
It is not just Nolan’s reputation that is on the line if Tenet is released in July
Protocol questions
Is Ulster how May’s sometime ministers will still get BRINO for Great Britain too?
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
Farewell Hybrid Parliament. Goodbye Scottish MPs?
MPs are to return to Westminster. But will Welsh, Scottish and Ulster MPs come?
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
Waiting for normal
Why lockdown is the perfect time to read Samuel Beckett
A heavenly perspective
Thoughts on the plague with St Pauls’ greatest dean, John Donne
We’re all in the big numbers now
Adding up the damage Britain’s Covid-19 policies have caused
Back to school…or is remote learning enough for now?
And is there a point to counter-factual history?
Under the Corona Act, Dr Shipman could have got away with more murders
Certain safeguards have been put aside but they were there for a reason, explains Ronan Maher
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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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform