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The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
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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
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency