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The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Why don’t women always go to the police?
The legal system fails victims
Guilt, innocence and suspicion
The presumption of innocence cannot only have a strict legal meaning
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
A bonfire of the straw men
Rishi Sunak declares war on policies that never existed
Elon Musk and your digital soul
Don’t let Musk’s image blind you to his business ambitions
Minority appeal
Can right-wing parties win with ethnic minorities?
The lure of the red flag
Russell Brand and the performance of misogyny
Sic transit gloria mundi
A barebones parliament stumbles along as a country crumbles
Feminists gear up for a new fight
Advocates of surrogacy are ignoring its impact on women and children
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
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves