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A failure of safeguarding
The government should act on transitioning in schools
Cancel culture in academia
Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro
Farewell to the counterculture
Róisín Murphy’s cancellation is a tale of poachers turned ideological gamekeepers
Growth, grift and speculation
What can art tell us about economics?
Britain’s last grown-up
A year after Queen Elizabeth’s death, Britain remains Peter Pan land
The kids are alright
In defence of the British state school pupil
Buildings are storytellers
Civic architecture should be more than functional
What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
History is a battleground
How the world struggles to protect its heritage
The fantasy politics of pragmatism
Janan Ganesh is wrong about radical politics
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
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies