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The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
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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
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas