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Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
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
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed