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The T word and the BBC
Why is the Beeb so coy about the nature of Hamas?
How can British Jews feel safe?
The government is in no position to promise security
Edinburgh’s decolonial decline
How did a university that set out to fight racism end up promoting it?
Vox populism
How to turn the tables on the left
What went wrong with Peter Foster?
A lazy series of talking points for Remainers
United Statecraft
Early days of the American empire
Ultra-processed fools
More misinformation about so-called UPFs
Has the BBC stopped pretending to be unbiased?
Don’t go to the Beeb’s website for balanced information
Tough crowd, tough man
What has Graham Linehan learned about television and trangenderism?
Forever stuck in the nineties
Sarah Lucas and the sexual revolution that wasn’t
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician