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The Texas youth transition law
Children are once again caught in the middle of a culture war over gender
The stupidity of lockdown revealed society’s nihilism
Why were we content to ruin the lives of so many?
A tawdry death imitating art
Francis Bacon’s turbulent love for George Dyer is visible on the canvas
News from nowhere
National Conservatism Conference diary: our brave reporter encounters globalisation in Brussels
Labour is failing women
How have we reached a point where a former shadow women and equalities minster doesn’t know what a woman is?
A controversial opening
I love the idea of the Vagina Museum, I just don’t love this vagina museum
How modern wars end
History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end
We should open our borders to the victims of Putin
Immigration is a potent weapon in the war on authoritarianism
The ideology that refuses to die
US neoconservatism is enjoying an unmerited afterlife in the UK
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
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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
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
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards