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Come off it, Stonewall
The group has long been an unreliable guide to the law
Why banks collect art
What started as one banker’s obsession is now an €850 million asset — and a powerful branding tool
There’s no evidence for menu calorie counts
Calorie counts on menus are thoughtless puritanism, masquerading as science
Miriam Spector
Sad to relate, there are celebrity ghostwriters who despise their clients
A son of Saint Augustine
Christians hoping for a spiritual leader have cause for optimism
Where the wild things aren’t
England’s green and pleasant land has become a cultural battleground
The irrational theatre
The state of the National Theatre is tragic indeed
The female body is not the problem
Female fertility should not be reduced to something to manipulate
Why can nobody paint the Royals?
Looking at this weak likeness on Tatler’s glossy cover, Britain will draw a blank
The lie of trans “murders”
Children love fairy stories, but reframing thieves and alleged sexual deviants as those fairies is grotesque
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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
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician