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There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
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
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was