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Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Children’s mental health crisis
Using our kids to virtue signal adult politics fuels anxiety and depression
Why is TalkTV failing?
Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
The Colston 4 and the fog of law
The politicised trial of the Bristol statue topplers shows the law surrounding protests is mired in confusion
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
We need to talk about Sex Education
Relationship and Sex Education classes for children are being taken over by outside providers with their own agenda
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war