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Why they hated Benedict
He defended tradition against modernity
Rishi gets an F
There’s no point in teaching uninterested students maths
How Britain became a gerontocracy
Tory short-termism has worn itself out
On British chumocracy
Playing Six Degrees of Petronella Wyatt
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia
The numbers game has incentivised bad behaviour
Covid and the Church of England’s retreat
Parishioners were ill-served by the Church’s pandemic response
The EDI agenda is worse than silly
It divides, obscures and inflames
The Benedict XVI generation
How his “dynamic fidelity” responded to the needs of a changing world
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Bullying your mum isn’t activism
Political purity is another mask for patriarchy
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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
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
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
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands