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Studio: The history of Britain in maps
Maps are aids and images, means and messages
Welfare statesmen
Struggling ex–Prime Ministers have been spotted queueing outside of Parliament
House of Lords — keep, reform or abolish?
Why is there so little agreement?
World War E
Twitter, Musk and the corruption of the Internet
Those new puritans
A righteous dissection of Poundland post-structuralists
Fake it ’til you break it
Tech’s dangerous cult of genius
Young conservatives need a voice
We have been ignored for too long
The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
Why can’t our media grow up?
We should be a lot more careful if war is at stake
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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
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself