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Grooming gangs at the end of history
Sexual abuse can upend all of our convenient narratives
High priests of academia
The public are reading academic output, and they don’t like what they see
Robot dreams
Keir Starmer is very excited about AI, but does he understand it?
Trigger warnings fire me up
Don’t spoil books and films for the sake of a minority
Woke isn’t even nearly over
Corporate homage to Team Trump is not victory over the mind virus
The tyranny of the train companies
Train companies are bullying the innocent while blatant lawbreakers run free
Rouvali’s subtle genius
Santtu-Matias Rouvali delivers a masterclass in restraint and resonance in Shostakovich’s 6 and 9
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
Beware of education technology
The Lexile Scale is alchemy, not science
The problem with “lies and misinformation”
The charge of “misinformation” can be pure misdirection
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone