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In defence of package holidays
Uno beero por favor!
Constitutional curiosities
Where do Truss and Sunak stand?
Levelling up to where?
The chatterati are in no place to lecture
Why the Church fails to get answers from above
The Anglican hierarchy is obsessed with management structures over the real issues of morality, theology and falling congregations
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
Can Labour be talked off the pledge?
Starmer should not double down on trans radicalism
The comedy of inclusive disrespect
Laughter can unite us
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
Present-day lessons from past masters
Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger
Nazi foreign policy — did Hitler know what he was doing?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Nazi foreign policy differed from the traditional objectives of German nationalism
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
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse