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This lady is for turning
You turn if you want to, I already have
Don’t impose buffer zones
Give women real choice
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
What is a man?
And why does no one ever ask
Come friendly reforms
…and fall on planning law
Making the moral case for war
Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally
Kwasi kwestions
Humility isn’t in their programming
Political fever dreams
Not everything we dislike is Hitler
Hate crime and hate slime
There’s a difference between violence and criticism
Against the neo-prohibitionists
Drug users have agency — let them choose for themselves
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
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to