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Useful idiot
Rishi Sunak is the Labour Party’s strongest asset
Sex-Machina
Holy month is upon us
Here comes trouble
Farage is going to cause huge headaches for the Tories, and may be here to stay
The case against “Zero Seats”
Despite everything, some Conservatives still deserve to win
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order