Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
No unions without Labour, no Labour without unions
Unite’s battles with Starmer reveal a union at odds with itself
The triple lock must go
Young people are suffering because politicians are too scared to risk their political futures
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution