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In praise of reality
2021 turned the tide on the gender critical debate — and reality won
Hard times on the Black Dragon River
Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The Boris coaster
Is there any reason to doubt Boris Johnson has at least one more miraculous recovery up his sleeve?
Welcome to Londongrad
We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace
The Government stole Christmas
For small businesses, Sunak’s billion is a pimple patch on a sucking chest wound
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country