Big brains and banter
Online Editor Ben Sixsmith takes a wry look at the week’s events with Online Editor Ben Sixsmith.
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What happened in the decade Britain was without a monarch?
How does a writer become a figure of cultish renown?
A march of misadventures
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The Walliams dilemma
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
