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It’s all gone King Kong
Will reason finally bring Boris down to earth where gravity has failed?
A clarion call to parents
The Government has once again betrayed the young
The Critic Books Podcast: George III
Graham Stewart and Andrew Roberts discuss the life and reign of Britain’s most misunderstood monarch
A strident legacy
In the decade since his death, Christopher Hitchens’s weaknesses have become our own
Right off track
Women deserve better than a half-baked poster campaign
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
Studio: Piranesi
Alasdair Palmer visits an exhibition at the Fondazione Marco Besso, Rome
Life is a leadership election
Eternal recurrence on a three-line whip
Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?
Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
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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
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
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam