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Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
Tolkien and environmentalism
The author of The Lord of the Rings despaired of the modern world
Eddie Izzard uses the ladies loo in Sheffield
It’s about a man’s power over women
Bleeding the Russian bear white
Britain, the US and the War in Ukraine
Imagine a world without lawyers on Twitter
The case of the Colston statue
What to do with Channel 4
It could be a force for soft power
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
Don’t shoot the pianists, protect them
Conductors should leave accompanying to the collaborative pianists
Stirling work
The Stirling Prize should go to a build outside of London
The building king
King Charles can be a late bloomer
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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
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine