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Count the cost
The government is running out of time to stop messing up
From Boris to boring
Might the British electorate have decided they have had quite enough excitement from one premier?
A life indecently full of fun and games
This is not a journey you will find in most accounts of the twentieth century
Grasping the nettle
Romeo runs into legal difficulties …
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
Life Between Islands
The Tate’s exhibition shows Caribbean-British art from the Windrush to the present day
Revolving door ideologues
Publicly disowned last year, Equaliteach is now back — and receiving more taxpayer funds.
The name’s gone
Society needs to end the charade of delegating moral judgments on historic benefactors to schoolchildren
Britain’s squid pro quo
Economic growth is hindered by the profusion of “negative sum” public sector jobs
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
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
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation