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G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour
If it’s broken, fix it
The NI Protocol has not worked, and the EU has done nothing to live up to its commitment to it being temporary
June: Letters to the Editor
Ukraine provides the best argument for why countries should not lightly discard nuclear weapons
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Shapps is shocked, shocked!
The Prime Minister’s defence calls in a specialist
Where do you draw the line?
The West should think twice before providing endless weaponry to Ukraine
It’s grim up north
Is the Northman alt-right propaganda? Perhaps, but it’s not the only one
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity