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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another

