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Living in London is not a human right
It’s time to accept London’s housing stock is a luxury commodity
The Guardian’s McCarthyite gender politics
Ideological policing of Róisín Murphy is a cynical tribalism divorced from social justice
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spad
Famed spy-hunter Oliver Dowden is on the case of a traitor at the Circus (or parliament, as its sometimes know)
The new India
‘Bharat’ is an invented country, one which ignores history and excludes non-Hindus
National dis-service
Patriotism can’t, and shouldn’t be, compelled
Justified sinners
Green activists want to do the crime but not the time
The end of liberalism?
Patrick Deneen’s book finds new beginnings at the end of an era
Mahler: Symphonies 1, 2 and songs (various labels)
The highs and lows of following a great
Tenderness and truth
What should parents do about gender-nonconforming kids?
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
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here