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In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Beating the Blob
You could be forgiven for thinking Labour won the election
Vibe check: lit or cheugy? #fyp
Zarah Sultana and the rise of the MP influencer
Chum chucking chum
Not the Nine O’Clock News, or Ten, or Eleven, or, well, any
Fact not fiction
A response to the GEO
Let’s face it
Governments use masking to force compliance, not fight viruses
Dr Labourstein’s monster
Knighthood or no knighthood, Tony Blair will never be re-habilitated
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber symphonies 2&4
Weinberg is an absolute master of intimated emotion
Borderline bleak
Sex and the City’s sequel is more mini-lecture series than TV drama
The rise of meta-horror
In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
The assisted suicide debate is not over
But will its supporters try and stop genuine scrutiny?
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
