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What justice for grooming gang survivors?
A new judgment represents some progress
Not going to be ignored (w/ Victoria Smith)
On the demonisation of middle-aged women
Ententes cordiales
The King causes controversy
Defending the indefensible
Trans activists have rationalised violent censorship
Combat sport catharsis
A night outside the Longhouse
A classic case of missing the point
A misguided campaign to decolonise the Univerity of London’s Classics curriculum
The adventures of Captain Competent
Not coming to cinemas near you
Violence against women, but woke
Anti-feminist aggression is exactly what it looks like
Questioning Casey
Are black Londoners “over-policed”?
On mentioning the war
What’s behind our obsession with World War 2?
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
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war