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Cathy comes home
In Cathy Freeman were vested not just a nation’s hopes but its fears, guilt and shame, too
Don’t kid yourselves, Team Kemi
The Tories’ flailing failure looks more like performance art than sound political strategy
France needs a hero
All nations have known long winless periods, but the French drought in Paris has felt very long
Where’s Reform’s Beef?
If the rise in popular support is real, then Reform can’t be a one-man band
The ridiculous process of finding a new head of the CofE
The last regime handed the church over wholesale to the middle managers
The man in the dug-out
If you fail, you’re sacked; if you succeed, you get poached
Defying a pervert
We have internalised the belief that to point out the glaringly obvious is not only cruel but aggressive
Rebooting the Bard
Technological forces shall ensure the emergence of an altogether more “relatable” Bard, fittingly diverse in origin
Equity for all
With all this do-goodery, it is a wonder that the company has time for anything else
Having one’s head examined
To be Master of an Oxbridge college was once the most prized sinecure in Britain
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate