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Kiwi shoe polish and civilisation
To dress respectably is to dress respectfully
Sex, New Scientist and me
How I learned to stop worrying and criticise the magazine
The Parthenon is special, but not unique
If we must return the Elgin marbles, why not any other artefact?
Letting the mask slip
An unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat used “nudging” to influence national policy
A pantomime of womanhood
Women’s pain is not a novelty to be impersonated
Dead policy sketch
Reports of Channel 4’s privatisation have been greatly exaggerated
Inconvenient victims
A woman deserves more sympathy than her killer
Let’s help parents care for kids
Childcare has to be more affordable
A lie amid history
Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
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
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ