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Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
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
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism