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All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Cancellation of a Brazilian artist
Dissenting opinions on transgenderism can inspire attempts to erase careers
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
Troublesome women
Rebellious heroines and unscrupulous heroes
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
British lessons for Canadian politics
What can the experiences of the Labour Party teach Pierre Poilievre?
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
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
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf