Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The costs of war
Providing military assistance to Ukraine may be the right thing to do, but it’s not cheap
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
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
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose