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An unfinished masterpiece
One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
Save it, Slavitt
We all need the facts about monkeypox
Another stone in the wall
No, two-year-olds cannot be trans
In defence of centrist dads
Tom Tugendhat was a man for the hour
Do we need a trade deal with the US?
Now is the time for the UK to reassess priorities
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
Messi to Aston Villa?
The joyous anarchy of football transfer gossip
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism
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
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people