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A return, a reissue, a brilliant new voice
The best, and the not-so-great, new fiction to read this month
Hands On or Hands Off?
Fracking – a whole new Tory faultline
Ruff day at the NEC
Crufts is less about the dogs than it is their human owners
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
Where is the United Nations?
The world has lost its only credible arena for peace
Searching in vain for Hitler’s lethal edict
These two new histories of the holocaust add little to what is already known
Michael Gove — refugee traffic controller
In a crisis a great politician shall arise
The cost of war
The EU and UK Government must act to protect Ukraine’s women and children
Is the Ukraine conflict about me?
A narcissistic generation reacts to the shadow of war
Rage against the machine
Schools should be a safe space away from the ghoulish blue light
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
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them