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Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
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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
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems