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Going to war
Iraq, Eric Ambler and me
Ritual, not pageantry
Understanding the Coronation
Why Russia is still in business
Poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war
Steam powering progress
How Victorian railways were the engine of modern technologies
Language and assisted suicide
Let’s not soften language for political ends
A taxing read
Industrial subsidies and the English language
Nothing to declare
Against the boring tyranny of proceduralism
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Trans rights and wrongs
There is more than one definition of a “right”
Enter Oliver “The Danger” Dowden
There’s a new hardman next to Rishi Sunak
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
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off