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The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
