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The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it