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The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?