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The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
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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
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another