In praise of the fruit of the barley
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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
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers