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Labour is trapped in a statist doom-loop
Keir Starmer has a quasi-religious belief in government power
The China panic and the Indian fact
The debate over the Chagos Islands has been clouded by fantasy about Beijing, obscuring the far more consequential role of New Delhi
Polish lessons for the British right
Radical ideologues might not win but they can undermine winners
Revolutionary faith
Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution
Nostalgic fantasies of the British Raj
Shattered Lands: Five
Partitions and the Making of Modern
Asia by Sam Dalrymple; e Indian
Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the
Billionaire Prince by Imran Mulla
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
Is Britain ungovernable?
Our lack of a shared political identity makes it impossible to govern for everyone
Intriguing flaws
Man and Boy, Dorfman Theatre
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
A fallow period
Hannah Betts argues that styling rather than buying is the thing
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground