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Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
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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
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests