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Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
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
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket