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The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
Children need education, not indoctrination
We need more debate on what children are being taught in RHSE
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
No more Mr Boring
Farage is making politics fun again
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
The grey vote will not save the Tories
Appealing to older voters is failing as an electoral strategy
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
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
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy