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Educational sleazources
The Conservatives need to get a grip on schools
Against daycare ideology
Parents deserve more choice when it comes to childcare
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
Weapon of mass deception
Boris dossier reveals we’re only 45 minutes from the next lie
The nightmare apparent
Has Sturgeon doomed the SNP to mediocre leadership?
Remembering Iraq
We still feel the consequences of that disastrous war
The meaning of rape
There is no case for expanding its definition
A fright in the Dolomites
It’s a bit much to go to dinner at a luxury ski resort and find oneself inadvertently appearing in Fawlty Towers with zombies
Easter angst
Holiday horror looms on the horizon
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
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone