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Truss was right
The British economy can’t afford low growth
Surprise in war
Ukraine shows that speed can be everything — but swiftness is born of careful planning
Davros man
COMUNICATE! COMUNICATE! COMUNICATE!
They also serve
The unsung heroes that underpin sport both professional and amateur
Cold comfort
Fertility clinics promise to beat the biological clock –– but egg freezing rarely works
The ECHR is out of control
The Strasbourg court has waged a decades long crusade against national sovereignty and traditional values
The case for a British military-industrial complex
Deindustrialisation will cost the UK dearly in 21st century warfare
Trying to get everyone to agree is a wild goose chase
On the lonely worship and solemn rituals of the wildfowler
The real McCoy
With a little effort, haggis can be a real treat
Pure pantomime
Parliament is putting on quite a show this Christmas
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
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt