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Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
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
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
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 decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun