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The plague of “street art”
It is the local council equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig
Homosexuality is transphobic
The woke case against same-sex attraction
Roasted Rabbit
I am not a happy bunny
The rise and fall of Jess Phillips
The outspoken MP has had a sad and ironic career
Britain should welcome the death of the Special Relationship
Our one-sided attachment to the US is damaging our opportunities
Serious silliness
Five decades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The trouble with diagnosis-positive feminism
Taking women seriously about their health should not always mean trusting doctors
Against legalism
The problem is often law, not just bad law
Musical morphine
Radio 3 has given up its time-honoured mission to inform, educate and entertain
Surprising reds from an old empire
Austria’s reds are rich in flavour, if not always heritage
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss