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Alas, a new podcast just doesn’t work
Why does the podcast exist? Vine and Hitchens never explain its purpose
How Labour lost the North East
The deep generational loyalty to Labour has frayed to threads
Our Great Leader Nigel
Never be the first to stop clapping
The rise of sectarian social media
A sectarian media environment is forming to enable our sectarian politics
You have a patriotic duty to champion British food
Insulting British cuisine is not just lazy, it is downright libellous
Lessons from the lady of the Mercians
Alfred’s daughter Aethelflaed should inspire the next MP of Runcorn
Signposts of the sacred and mundane
What would it have been like to worship in parish churches in the Middle Ages?
Sympathy for the devil?
Those expecting a recipe for poulet à la Gazza may be disappointed
Resist the home education clampdown
Labour’s bill would turn home-educating families into surveillance targets
Kemi should abolish the College of Policing
The Tory leader wants to scrap “non-crime hate incidents”, but she should abolish the root cause
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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
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead