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Letting the mask slip
An unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat used “nudging” to influence national policy
A pantomime of womanhood
Women’s pain is not a novelty to be impersonated
Dead policy sketch
Reports of Channel 4’s privatisation have been greatly exaggerated
Inconvenient victims
A woman deserves more sympathy than her killer
Let’s help parents care for kids
Childcare has to be more affordable
A lie amid history
Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
New Year’s Rishilutions
Can he turn things around? Probably not
I hate PRIME with a passion
Where does advertising stop and entertainment begin?
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
