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Murders for July
My murder of the month is The Other Couple by Diane Jeffrey
Striving for peak perseverance
Energetic oddballs asked if the limits of the possible had really been reached
Balancing the books
My disappointing dealings with Unbound, a publisher that collapsed owing authors money
EDI has a dark underbelly
“Diversity experts” can seem oddly comfortable with online anti-Semitism
Reeves’s tears show she’s human
I don’t want emotionally cold robots operating in Parliament
Make every day a Pride day
Many organisations this year forgot to put up their flags
How The Smiths were Marred
Right-on credentials are no excuse for elevating uninspiring music
Britain is stuck in a welfare loop
The incentive structure in a democratic welfare state makes economic realism impossible
In defence of Kemi
Why you should believe in Mrs B
Ukraine: Masters of the digital battlefield
On Operation Spider’s Web
Most Read
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
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious