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A bitter pill for public health
The sugar tax has not worked as intended
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
Platinum populism
Right-leaning discontent comes in many different forms
Beyond the culture war
Peter Thiel rightly diagnoses wokeness as a dangerous distraction from decline
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Time to ask “But what about the children?”
Not talking about the facts is counterproductive
Snippy Rishi
Is Sunak a misunderstood statesman with a heart of gold, or an inept adolescent on a rampage?
Why Singaporean healthcare works
It’s the incentives, stupid
Every crime is a crime
We must distinguish between stories and their misuse
Enjoyable destruction
Godzilla Minus One may not be especially profound but it is great fun
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business