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The suffocating blandness of elite fashion
Leaders should dress like leaders
Wines for romantics
Henry Jeffreys enjoys the heady pleasure of fine marsala
Double rapists can be ladies too
Only a bigot would deny Isla’s lived experience
I’ve got a brand new combine harvester
City lawyer turns rural heartthrob as Keir Starmer woos the farmers
Criminal reporting
The New York Times is deplorably incurious
International disorder
Tyrants are breaking with civilisation
Male, pale and stale?
The supposedly privileged cannot win
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Panto in parliament
Michael Gove takes us on a regional tour
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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces