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Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
The end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
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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 case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves