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Torypocalypse
Rishi Sunak has industriously succeeded in alienating everyone
December letters
Stuffed ballot boxes, menaced Baltic countries and Tory tearaways who came good
A masquerade of Rawlsian liberalism
An interesting but unconvincing Rawlsian case for socialism
The government should stop this social experiment on children
Don’t throw children to the activist wolves as guinea pigs
Where does Labour think that wealth comes from?
Keir Starmer has to face the reality of wealth creation
In defence of Blimp
Was the reactionary caricature, immortalised by Powell and Pressburger, actually a moral visionary?
A Boris for all seasons
I will not tell you what was in the WhatsApps. I will not tell you why I will not
Braverman’s broadside
Does Suella have a plan to save the Conservatives?
“Muslim gangsters” and secular ironies
Finding religion does not always mean being reformed, and secularisation does not always mean being enlightened
Burning effigies for the Man
The Wicker Man is an ironic masterpiece that exposes the paradox of paganism
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
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances