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The life and loves of John Nash
Andy Friend provides a readable account of Nash’s life, but omits important detail about how the artist made others feel
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
Letter from Washington: What were they thinking?
A question to which there is no exonerating answer
The weather is racist
Standing to pee is transphobic, the police hire woke commissars and German activists re-name the weather
You had to be there
Riotous good fun for someone in No 10
The French Revolution and its legacy
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart, about France’s eighteenth-century revolutionary ferment
Why feminists should oppose the death penalty
Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice
How the rise of digital technology facilitated lockdown
Philosopher Mark Sinclair warns against the slippery slope of technological thinking
History shows that violence is ‘as American as cherry pie’
Violence is intrinsic to America and we shouldn’t expect it to cease being so when Donald Trump leaves office
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them