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Abuses of affirmation
Inside the communities of trans mums
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
Lovable losers
Can you let the country down and still be adored? Rishi hopes so
Diversity, equity and exclusion
Intent and context always matter in the use of language
Life in Trusstopia
What would things be like if Liz Truss had continued to govern?
A technological prescription
Doctors have to be more aware of technological progress
Concern trolling the clergy
The Church of England should reject The Times’ advice
Zombie Parliament
Night of the living dead legislators
The case for national service
It will benefit the young and benefit the nation
Building a culture for kids
Financial support is not enough to raise fertility rates
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
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill