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Do we really need population growth?
Population decline need not mean national decline
The liberal establishment is to blame for public outrage
Ignoring and enabling horrendous crimes has encouraged a nativist backlash
Mahler’s pioneers
Walter Goehr and Willem Mengelberg revive Mahler’s genius
Academic freedom will take individual courage
Students and academics have the responsibility to speak their minds
Murders for January
Murder mysteries to brighten the winter gloom
The impoverishment of British values
Modern moral codes cannot define the totality of Britishness
We need a proper inquiry into grooming gangs
It must be independent, transparent and efficient
Could Esther Rantzen think twice on assisted suicide?
The gifts of life can be unexpected
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
The road to Hell is paved with arse-covering cowardice
Good intentions were not to blame for the failure to stop the grooming gangs
Most Read
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
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are