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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.