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Ed Miliband does not understand economics
Why employment figures aren’t the right metric for energy policy
Trump cannot pick a fight with everyone
A scattershot trade war risks US predominance
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
Traditional beefy favourites
Abandoning classic styles shows a lack of confidence
Why cis women are bad at sports
So-called “physical advantages” can be explained by sexist parenting
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
What’s the beef with American beef?
Tariff-free beef imports could harm British farmers and consumers
Keir Starmer is right to scrap the care worker visa
It might cause disruption but the status quo is unsustainable
Of course we shouldn’t dim the sun
Dominic Cummings is casting a lot more heat than light
A pash for polka
Polkamania convulsed Europe, and its dots dance on
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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 sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances