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The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
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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 Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
People who don’t much care for England are unlikely to understand English football
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home