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The anti-arts establishment
Why do we accept such moralistic philistinism?
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
The truth about Knowsley
Britain’s media and political classes refuse to address the causes of the violent scenes in Liverpool
The meaning of Locke
A new book explores the English philosopher’s American afterlife
The men who hate cars
I’ve had enough of White Paper Mansplainers
Boats and bombs
A Netflix winner, a Netflix disappointment and a classic American hero on Amazon Prime
The case against the ECHR
Sunak must take on Strasbourg to uphold sovereignty and sound policy
The Brazilian solution
How Plano Real defeated inflation
Difficult questions on Ukraine
We must not shrink from reassessment
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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
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case