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Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
A last chance at class
Labour is running out of time to put working class MPs into parliament
Dad’s army
We’re all doomed
The Road to the Cass Review — (3) Sue and Marcus Evans
What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre, and why
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
Neither “side” can offer peace to the holy land
The logic of partisanship turns lethal when it comes to Gaza
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
Australian insights into Britain under Labour
Anthony Albanese’s government offers a depressing glimpse of Britain’s future
Rape crisis sabotage is a feature, not a bug, of trans activism
Trans activism is uniquely incompatible with anti-rape activism
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
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
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?