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The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
Gregg Wallace and the problem of the diagnostic label defence
We need more careful thought about the interactions between mental and neurodevelopmental conditions and misbehaviour
Against esoteric Skinnerism
We should not mistake a big personality for meaningful politics
Undergrad’s Army
Let University Officers’ Training Corps be our Home Guard
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
Brunelleschi’s egg
Demythologising a Renaissance genius
In defence of the Irish pathway to citizenship
Rather than opening doors to anyone, it affirms an old friendship
Stick to being a Hobbit
The right has been conditioned to fail, over decades and decades
How abortion up to birth was agreed so easily
As a male MP, I was under pressure not to speak out about life issues
Why so many Northerners?
Callously relegated to Norway in October, one should be “grateful for the fjords” apparently
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword