Artillery Row
Kemi does good PMQs shocker!
Plus: Could Mandy get three resignations in three different decades?
Getting Christianity wrong
Alice Roberts misunderstands Christianity and its success
Don’t panic about Putin
Potential Russian provocation should make us determined but not hysterical
We are facing a crisis of competency
The struggles of the Office for National Statistics illustrate the struggles of the British state
Is there a secret plot against AfD politicians?
Conspiracy theories flourish in a culture of anti-democratic censorship and authoritarianism
Britain needs honesty more than genius
It’s not rocket surgery: a (partial) defence of Kemi Badenoch
Is anyone following the leader?
The Conservatives have a long way to go before winning back relevance
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
Bad medicine
How the Guardian’s favourite doctor ruined his healthy reputation
We must get serious about school absence
It is not acceptable for so many children to miss so much of their education
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light