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The sad, slow death of state schooling
The decline in standards has been dismayingly avoidable
The limits of academic freedom
What do we mean by “freedom” and what do we mean by “academic”?
Don’t get squishy on free speech
Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty
Cry God for Rishi
Rishi Sunak only wishes he had the prospects of Henry V
Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?
Yesterday’s censors are today’s free speech champions
Revisionist lockdown history
The public health establishment is being whitewashed over COVID
Orbán: guardian of liberal freedoms
Rod Dreher argues the west’s Orbán hysteria is absurd and that hungary is safe, civilised and democratic
Better than evil
Israel has a duty to be better than its enemies
Playing nice hasn’t worked
Even when I keep quiet about being cancelled, the censors don’t invite me back
November Letters
War, Brexit, Truss and an idea for new merchandise
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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre