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Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
