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London’s lost interwar interiors
The interwar years were the belle époque of interior design as an art form
A “call list” system would be a gift to lazy MPs
It will suck all the life out the House of Commons
Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
The News Agents’ selective outrage
Grooming gangs are the problem, not people sounding the alarm
Britain needs a coherent China policy
From Hinkley Point to Huawei, we have no idea how to deal with Beijing
A taste of Mediterranean summer in Pimlico
Bold Mediterranean cooking transports diners with “holiday potatoes”
Anglican churchgoers need the Real Thing
The Church of England is falling behind because we’re serving such thin gruel
Thinking inside the box
Leadbeater is a jolly speaker, chivvying us onwards
The C of E’s anti-bullying schools guidance is worse than ever
Children in church schools are taught trans affirmation and critical race theory
Dodging drones in the Red Zone
Despite the terror, Ukrainians are not giving up
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education