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Scrap the Online Safety Bill
The blunt of legislation could steamroller valid criticisms
Not quite Utopia
Sunak’s on strike and there’s trouble in Tory paradise
Make childcare cheaper, not more complicated
We won’t educate children better if there are no children to teach
Don’t mention the war
A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic
The red pill is a sedative
Men are finding bad solutions to real problems
Explaining law to Monbiot
Interim injunctions exist for a reason
A sticky wicket
Rishi Sunak has trouble playing, and delivering, spin
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Conservatism’s America problem
The British right is buying into a failed US culture war
The case for voter ID
The system is too vulnerable to abuse
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
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning