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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
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
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital