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Labour’s Head Girl
Labour’s shadow chancellor is determined to be top of her class, and show those rough boys in the other school how its done
Decolonisation is not a metaphor
In praise of the rough honesty of the far left
Maternal mistruths
How the erasure of maternity language hides the truth about pregnancy
Canada’s indelicate delicacies
A tour of the ups and downs of Canadian cuisine
What the Polish election means
It has major implications for conservatism and left-liberalism in Europe
Back to the future
HS2? Where we’re going, we don’t need high speed rail
Time for action on Palestine Action
We have to take a tough line against aggressive sectarianism in Britain
Over-simplified and underpowered
Shostakovich symphonies 2, 3, 12, 13 (DG)
Buried roots of war
We have not remembered all the relevant facts about the conflict in Ukraine
The pronoun ritual
How has it taken over society?
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
