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Murders for February
More murders, from Newcastle to the Norfolk Broads
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre
A persuasive critique of identity politics
Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us by
Marie Kawthar Daouda
Don’t make parents pay for pints
It would be a terrible mistake to uphold the two-child benefit cap
Starmer, man of sleaze
Starmer’s promises to clean up British politics make him little more than an establishment demagogue
Why we love medical drama
The morbid and the erotic mingle in the portrayal of surgery
In praise of the proper winter coat
We have nothing to lose but our puffer jackets
England as it really is
US visitors may be in for an unexpected and unpleasant suprise
Wrestling with fickle giants
Why, if the Beveridge Report was supposed to cure Britain’s ills, do so many complain society is broken?
Australia’s populist moment is finally here
But can it actually fix anything?
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
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
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does