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Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
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
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants