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Creatives are dorks
Cheerleading women is not the answer to gender imbalance
The country that went to the wall
From its birth after 1945, to its death after 1990
Getting down to business
The Conservatives have baby fever
Who are the British national conservatives?
The Tory right tried to sell the free market to a sceptical populist audience
Traditions of the future
Time to recover Britain’s Judeo-Christian constitutional heritage
How the cops got woke
The boys, and girls, in red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet and blue
Like a rolling stone
The sadder side of digital nomadism
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
Eurovision Highs and Eurovision Woes
It’s all good fun, and remember folks — it’s DEFINITELY not political
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
