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The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
