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Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Every British politics podcast
Big brains and banter
“Misgendering” is not a crime
Still less is it terrorism
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
How to be a ghost
Five elements to make a ghostwritten autobiography sing
The dark side of fantasy
If you are outraged by Andrew Tate, why aren’t you outraged by online porn?
In praise of friendship
Love for friends becomes love for the world
The tangled web of sex
No, sex is not “bimodal”
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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
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
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel