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A cynical man without any plan
Boris Johnson was an opportunist Prime Minister whose gambler’s luck ran out
Beware of the tax-cutters
Slashing the tax take now will lead to increased public spending for years to come
Allison Bailey’s fight
A victory for independent-minded women
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
How Hitler won
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the Nazis won in 1933 with only a third of the vote
The UN must not ignore Afghan religious minorities
They live under the threat of elimination
Is Liz Truss Thatcherite?
She wants to change our circumstances rather than manage them
In defence of non-conforming kids
Inclusivity is forcing children into boxes
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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
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries