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Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
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
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid