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Parliamentary sketches from our parliamentary sketch-writer
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict