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Who’s afraid of populism
The Tories cannot escape their base
Birth of a four decade nightmare
Time and again, Afghanistan has found its future decided from afar
Rhyme of the times
Within six weeks of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, most of Europe was at war
The right to be reserved
Not everybody wants to open up
Bad camp
These days, Pride is a real drag
Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
CNN’s optical delusion
How American progressives get “TERF Island” wrong
The EU’s appetite for power
What has Europe learned from Roe v Wade?
The coming Tory crack-up
The MPs are at odds with the members
Dodgy deals and a suspect stele
There is an infinite number of ways of conning collectors, investors and even institutions too
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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
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself