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A Hancock for the ages
Could our former health secretary actually be a time-travelling hero?
The meaning of memorisation
Minds, like libraries, should be well-stocked
AI and the disintegrating imagination
ChatGTP will change our relationship with writing
Redefining rape
You can’t take the penis out of rape law
Mental illness does not fit your easy narrative
Sanitisation is not acceptance
The culture war is all around you
It is the philosophical water in which we swim
Why Khan’t our media do its job?
Piers Morgan shouldn’t have been soft on the former Pakistan PM
Clients
Value neutral language drains meaning from discourse
Exploding the Anglosphere Dream
Is canzuk revivalism scary enough to need book-length refutation?
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
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
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low