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I miss the stiff upper lip
Some social constructions deserve to be kept
How Indian politics fuels violence in Leicester
Militancy in the Midlands
Painting Queen Elizabeth
The painted surface of monarchy is everything
The authenticity illusion
We all have a little LARPer inside us
Divine service
Faith and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Stability and sensibility
Art between the wars
A world of hurt
The UN must act before it’s too late
King Charles and the Jacobin Right
A strange and convenient about-turn
The real cancel culture only cancels me
I am cancelled, you are held accountable
The virtues of habit
Schooling needs a different kind of Thatcherism
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
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.