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How Napoleon won in the end
British business leaders have much to learn from their shrewd French counterparts
Target practice gone wrong
The RAF’s recruitment scandal exposes loopholes in the Equality Act
How Auntie excludes
Why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender critical feminists?
Those who can’t, police
British police are no longer up to grappling with wrong’uns
Hundred Years’ Brexit
Another promising future Conservative leader lost to the eternal struggle to Get Brexit Done
The myth of institutional racism
Sir Iain Livingston should retract his remarks about Scottish police
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
The dark side of Constable
His paintings have greater depth than fashion has supposed
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
Are they okay?
British politics and media can be hard to stomach
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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
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous