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Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
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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
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time