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The road to Wigan’s tears
The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe
Time to outlaw the Tories
The public cannot be trusted to vote properly
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Going viral
From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age
Rugby’s mismatches
Should the World Cup be smaller?
The eyes of the law
The argument over VAR remains unsettled
Up for the cup
Hoping for a golfing renaissance in Rome
First lady of the law
The new Lord Chief Justice inherits a role with a rich and varied history
Legacy of failure
13 years of missed chances, bungled crises and miserable inaction
The diversity trap
Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people
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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
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham