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Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
Be yourself
Finding your own look never goes out of style
The truth about the World Economic Forum
It is a lot more pathetic than it is sinister
The British economy needs a hero
Zombie corporatism is ruining British productivity
The Leadbeater Bill deserves to fail
It has looked more dangerous as the process has continued
The inequality delusion
British politics is being hamstrung by the uncritical pursuit of equal outcomes
Courtly love
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell
Lest we forget …
The writing’s on the wall for lowly folk still silly enough to consider themselves “creatives”
Gary Stevenson is wrong about the real world
His arguments for taxing wealth have no empirical foundation
Donald Trump is abandoning American leadership
Trump’s tariffs will weaken, not strengthen, American power
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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
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it