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The limits of vengeance
We should be careful to avoid natural outrage inspiring irrationality
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
New beginnings, old problems
How did geopolitics evolve in the aftermath of World War Two?
A minister for men?
A pointless non-job for the boys
The decline and fall of community cohesion
We need a more substantive model of belonging
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
Your face is the new interface
The ugly future of facial recognition
Notes of promise
Bruce Liu: Waves (Deutsche Grammophon)
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired
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
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs