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How is she so bad at this?
Kemi Badenoch cannot seem to stop walking into her own traps
Gambling is not the business of “public health professionals”
The concept of “public health” should apply to collective risks, not individual choices
An island of lotus-eaters
Our liberal national elites are unwilling to let go of their delusions
The major implications of minor sexism
Sexism-as-entertainment enables more serious acts of exploitation
Kemi Badenoch can’t get her story straight
The Conservative leader does not appear to be cut out for podcasting
Spellbound by uncompromising weirdness
I loved Elektra’s sulky Riot Grrrl energy and Oedipus’s extraordinary choreography
A murder mystery
Matters were interrupted by an onstage dizzy spell, later unhelpfully diagnosed as a “cardiac arrest”
Cordon bleu for me and yeu
Dining in style at a cult buffet restaurant
Men of steel
None of the British parties know how to deal with Trump
Of course young people think badly about Britain
They have been given no reason to think otherwise
Most Read
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
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake