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Why I’m against IVF, as an IVF Baby
The emotional effects on children can be profound
Three sensible policies for a better Britain
There is still some low-hanging fruit
The mercurial master of magic and misery
If Dickens was a unique enchanter, Conrad is a charmingly bewitched conjurer of his genius
Priests moving in mysterious ways
The further Denöel gets, the weaker and more credulous he becomes
Always time for WAR
Labour wages war on the countryside whilst Reform wages war on itself
The Sentencing Council is wrong, full stop
Disparities in outcomes is not proof of unfair discrimination
Reform has a human capital problem
Why would talented and successful people be attracted to such a farce?
The hidden depths of Saudi soft power
The Saudis are taking culture more seriously than one might think
Why won’t the Chief Constable hold my sign?
I didn’t even ask her to agree with it
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
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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
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants