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Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre