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Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
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
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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures